Hints On Etiquette And the Usages of Society With a Glance At Bad Habits Adapt
Hints On Etiquette And the Usages of Society With a Glance At Bad Habits Adapt
Charles William Day
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But the case is much worse when a profes- sional " violinist " is admitted into a private party : he either flourishes away, unconscious that he is not in an orchestra, or else, desirous to prove his superiority over the "dilettanti" he overpowers them with a tone which might fill a cathedral. The best fiddles scream too much in (comparatively) small rooms, however delicately they may be played ; besides that few even of the first English musicians seem to understand what an " accompaniment " r...eally means, each OF MUSIC IN GENERAL, SOCIETY. 73 performer being too intent on making his par- ticular instrument heard above the rest, to care about the subject, or to feel that an " accompa- niment" should be subdued, and subservient to the voice. We once heard the silver tones of an exqui- site singer completely overpowered, between the shriekings of a fiddle, the vain-glorious grum- blings of a violoncello, and the wheezings of a dyspeptic flute. 74 CHAP. X. DANCING. WITH the etiquette of a ball-room, so far as it goes, there are but few people unacquainted.
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