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THE only thing to which I find that this people apply a
commendable industry is playing upon musical instruments ;
in which they are incomparably more skilful than any other
nation I have ever seen. For their modulation on these
instruments, unlike that of the Britons to which I am accustomed,
is not slow and harsh, but lively and rapid, while
the harmony is both sweet and gay. It is astonishing that
in so complex and rapid a movement of the fingers,, the
musical proportions can be preserved, and that throughout
the difficult modulations on their various instruments, the
harmony is completed with such a sweet velocity, so unequal
an equality, so discordant a concord, as if the chords
sounded together fourths or fifths.
Правда дальше он пишет, что ирландцы мастера играть на арфах, но...
Гиральд Камбрийский "Топография Ирландии", книга 2, глава 11,
англ. перевод: "The historical works of Giraldus Canbrensis" London 1894
THE only thing to which I find that this people apply a
commendable industry is playing upon musical instruments ;
in which they are incomparably more skilful than any other
nation I have ever seen. For their modulation on these
instruments, unlike that of the Britons to which I am accustomed,
is not slow and harsh, but lively and rapid, while
the harmony is both sweet and gay. It is astonishing that
in so complex and rapid a movement of the fingers,, the
musical proportions can be preserved, and that throughout
the difficult modulations on their various instruments, the
harmony is completed with such a sweet velocity, so unequal
an equality, so discordant a concord, as if the chords
sounded together fourths or fifths.
Правда дальше он пишет, что ирландцы мастера играть на арфах, но...
Гиральд Камбрийский "Топография Ирландии", книга 2, глава 11,
англ. перевод: "The historical works of Giraldus Canbrensis" London 1894