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  • Actors and surgeons, like great singers too, like the executants who by their performance increase the power of music tenfold, are all the heroes of a moment.

    The Atheist's Mass 2007

  • Actors and surgeons, like great singers too, like the executants who by their performance increase the power of music tenfold, are all the heroes of a moment.

    The Atheist's Mass 2007

  • And then followed the thousand and one details of the wandering life: your name on the red list, the list handed in at the station; the journeys at reduced fares; the music for twelve instruments, forty executants, sent on to the theater a fortnight in advance.

    The Bill-Toppers J. Andr�� Castaigne

  • Besides the many writers for the Violin, and executants, there were numbers of ardent patrons of the Cremonese and Brescian makers.

    The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators George Hart

  • Let such music be simple or complex, according to the thought to be rendered or the capacity of the executants, let it be for voices, for instruments, or for a blending of the two, but let it always be appropriate to the subject, and rise with the thought or emotions to be conveyed.

    Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various

  • Best, one of the finest executants who ever lived, stated to a friend of the writer who asked him why he never played the

    The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments George Laing Miller

  • Spaniards are exacting critics, and the best musicians of other countries are as well known and appreciated as their own composers and executants.

    Spanish Life in Town and Country L. Higgin

  • Musical composition, however, of a high order, and able executants, were to be found elsewhere, and in Flanders in particular, and there the principal music and musicians were sought by the Italian _dilettanti_.

    The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators George Hart

  • A great crowd of musicians are here, including some composers and many excellently equipped executants.

    The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship

  • Neapolitan school, still greater liberty was allowed; the recitatives were all improvised by the executants, and were not even noted down.

    Style in Singing W. E. Haslam

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