. Programme . os were performed; at the beginningof an act as a rule; sometimes in the middle of one and so in someof his manuscripts these words are written in pencil after an ariaor chorus: Segue il concerto per 1 organo (The concerto for the organ follows). « . Sir John Hawkins, who heard Handel play the organ, gave adescription of his methods: When he gave a concerto his method in general was to introduceit with a voluntary movement on the diapasons, which stole on theear in a slow and solemn progression; the harmony close-wroughtand as full as could possibly be expressed; the passages con
. Programme . os were performed; at the beginningof an act as a rule; sometimes in the middle of one and so in someof his manuscripts these words are written in pencil after an ariaor chorus: Segue il concerto per 1 organo (The concerto for the organ follows). « . Sir John Hawkins, who heard Handel play the organ, gave adescription of his methods: When he gave a concerto his method in general was to introduceit with a voluntary movement on the diapasons, which stole on theear in a slow and solemn progression; the harmony close-wroughtand as full as could possibly be expressed; the passages concatenatedwith stupendous art, the whole at the same time being perfectly in-telligible and carrying the appearance of great simplicity. Thiskind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself, which he exe-cuted with a degree of spirit and firmness that no one can everpretend to equal. And of the effect on the enraptured auditory, Sir John wrote:Silence, the truest applause, succeeded the instant that he ad-. nriEi E
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