excerpt from 'Music, men and manners in France and Italy, 1770 / Charles Burney' pp. 220 (64 words)
excerpt from 'Music, men and manners in France and Italy, 1770 / Charles Burney' pp. 220 (64 words)
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I crawled to the theatre and was more disgusted than ever at French music after the dainties my ears had long been feasted with in Italy. Eugenie a pretty comedie preceded Sylvain an opera of Gretry - there were many pretty passages in the music but so ill sung, so false the expression - such screaming, forcing and trilling as quite turned me sick. |
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