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54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Il barbiere di Siviglia,"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Musiciens Célèbres."
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cecchina la buona figluola, perhaps the most popular buffo opera that was ever written, and which for years had an extraordinary vogue. Among many improvements Piccinni introduced in his operas, were the extension of the duet, hitherto treated in a conventional undramatic way, a... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Matrimonio segreto, one of the finest masterpieces of Italian opera. Subsequently he returned to Naples, and was accorded every possible honor by king Fernando. But he was imprudent enough to join the French terrorists at the outbreak of the revolution, and accordingly he fell i... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Romeo e Giulietta was so much admired, was unsurpassed in purity of style and refinement of detail. Zingarelli was director of the Conservatory at Naples, and later held a similar position in Milan. Among his numerous pupils the most celebrated was the"
},
{
"from": "gpt... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Anna Bolena (Pasta, Lablache). Rubini sang in it, and a large number of comic and serious operas followed; among them being"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "L' elisir d' amore (1832),"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lucrezia Borgia (1824),"
},
{
"f... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Messiah Stradivarius."
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His constant and daring flights, his newly discovered flageolet-tones, his gift of fusing and beautifying subjects of wholly opposite natures--all these phases of genius so completely bewildered my musical perceptions that for days afterwards my head was on fire and my brain ree... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Eurydice"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in the overtures to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Catone in Utica by Lionardo da Vinci and to"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Il Mondo alla Riversa by Galuppi, the latter of which was given one year before Joseph Haydn wrote his first symphony. Another ... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rinaldi and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Il gran Cid."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Agnese."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Masaniello, not to be confounded with Auber's popular opera of the same name, and"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Le cantatrice villane, a delightful opera buffa. This work was held for a long time in high esteem. Giovanni Piccinni (1796-1867) wrote a large number of operas, among which the best known are"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tasso and"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Crispino e la Comare"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ernani,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Il Trovatore,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "La Traviata,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rigoletto,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"va... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Il Domino Nero and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "La Figlia di Figaro were very popular. His last work, of more ambitious character, was"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "La Contessa di Mons"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "without much refinemen... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(futurists, or followers of Wagner), chiefly composed of the very best national talent, suddenly sprang up and sought to introduce the new art and the ideas of the German prophet. The nation at large did not sympathize with these proceedings. Many thought that such a movement th... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ruy Blas (after Victor Hugo). This opera had one of the longest runs on record, and by royalty from it alone Marchetti soon became a very wealthy man. His other works,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Giulietta e Romeo,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gust... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ali Baba, was very successful when given, but did not maintain itself in public favor."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ero e Leandro,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "La creola,"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dejanice and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wally,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Leonora, founded upon Burger's ballad. He subsequently wrote the operas"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Preciosa and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value":... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Asrael, a curious mixture, an empirical Italian salad, composed of all that has been and is. He shows, however, in this work a decided talent for the stage, though the symphonic element is rather too prominent. This opera, also, has been given at the Metropolitan opera house in ... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Amico Fritz, was a great disappointment to those who had looked upon the young author as a coming king in the realm of opera. But the great triumph of his third work,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I Rantzau, produced at Florence in November, 1892, has revived the ho... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "although there was no longer any one among them who bore the name. One branch of the family was permanently established in Arnstadt until 1739, another in Eisenach till 1777, where some of its descendants still remained only twenty years ago, though no longer following the profe... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "which is also known under its somewhat more familiar German title:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Capriccio auf die Abreise eines Freundes. It is divided into five parts, with explanatory programme, as follows: I.,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Persuas... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This, however, could not well have happened during the service, as female singers in that day were still excluded from church music. The"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pia Desideria,"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, Saviour of the people ("
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wohltemperirte Clavier, the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Inventionen und Sinfonien,"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By the waters of Babylon, which Reinken himself had long ago arranged for the organ after the manner of the Northern composers. At the close, he went up to Bach and said:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought this art was dead, but see that it still lives in you. ... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "French Suites especially for her; she must therefore have distinguished herself highly as a performer on the clavier. Notwithstanding the happy turn now given to Bach's life, his position in Cöthen was becoming uncomfortable for him. A week after his wedding the prince was also ... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "consisted in his having once sent a member of the choir into the country without previously informing the Burgomaster and having himself made a journey without asking leave. So far as the singing-lessons were concerned, it had for a hundred years been customary for the cantor to... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Messen,"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hof-Compositeur, and in 1733 his eldest son, Wilhelm Friedmann, secured his first position as organist at the Church of St. Sophia, in that city. During his travels in 1727, Bach was twice in Hamburg; his native province of Thuringia was not forgotten, and his relations with Wei... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Vor deinen Thron tret ich hiermit ("
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Before Thy throne herewith I come"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well-tempered Clavichord."
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Orgelbüchlein (Little Organ Book). The compilation of this was made in Cöthen, but the greater part of its contents belongs to the Weimar period. The pieces are almost wholly in Pachelbel's manner, but are more characteristic, richer and of greater depth. The melody always moves... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Little Organ Book, we possess a second autograph collection by Bach, containing sixteen organ chorals, interspersed with several pieces of the same order written by his pupil Altnikol. In this volume are included the most noteworthy of the more extended organ chorals composed du... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele ("
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Adorn thyself, beloved Soul ),"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An Wasserflüssen Babylon, two re-arrangements of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr ("
}... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and it is certainly safe to assert that he never wrote one which surpassed it. Play of imagination, inexhaustible invention, transparent clearness, unaffected simplicity, lofty earnestness and deep inward joy are here combined to form a whole of such unapproachable grandeur as t... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Inventionen und Sinfonien ; here also in 1722 he finished the first part of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wohltemperirte Clavier. This world-renowned work contains twenty-four preludes and fugues in all the major and minor keys of the twelve chromatic scales. It... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of church cantatas. Reckoned according to the requirements of the Leipsic church year, they would therefore reach a total of about four hundred, but not more than half that number have been preserved. The name here employed was given to the works in the present century; Bach him... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "however, seems appropriate, because in these works the narration of events in the words of the Bible constitutes as it were the thread which joins together the manifold parts. The old church custom of intoning passages from the Bible is the foundation upon which these works have... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Kyrie and the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sanctus, the employment of the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gloria being confined to Christmas Day. Since the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Kyrie was a regular part of the service on the first ... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Institution of the Gewandhaus Concerts."
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I used to write like the Devil in those days, but chiefly for the oboe, which was my favorite instrument. While pursuing his studies in composition, he was at the same time diligent in his practice of the clavichord and organ. Handel would have been no true German if he had not ... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Almira, was brought out in the carnival period of 1705 and excited the jealousy of Keiser himself, through the extraordinary applause which it received. After this followed"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nero and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Florindo ... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Agrippina. Artists and illustrious friends of art from England and from the electoral court of Hanover were present, also the Hanoverian chapel-master, Abbé Agostine Steffani. In their company he traveled back to Germany and became Steffani's successor in Hanover. He, however, s... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "). The solo parts of the chamber cantata originated by Carissimi are dramatic in character, while the duets of Steffani are lyric. He did not aim to represent well-defined musical characters in his duets, but to express lyric feeling in a general way, in the development of which... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Its attraction for Handel lay no doubt in the Italian form of the poem and the possibility of applying for once the skill in composition acquired in Italy to a text in his mother tongue. He was far from intending to come to the rescue of the evangelical church music of Germany, ... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Anthems, a word borrowed from the English liturgy. These were not on the plan of a motette, for all the resources known to the musical art of that time were here called into requisition--chorus and solo singing, with rich instrumental accompaniment, the text being drawn from the... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Royal Academy of Music. Before arrangements were fully completed, Handel was sent to the continent for the purpose of obtaining suitable Italian singers. The best talent possible to be procured was in request for the Royal Academy. In search of singers therefore he went again to... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Zadok the Priest and Nathan the Prophet annointed Solomon king. And all the people rejoiced and said: God save the King, long live the King, may the King live forever! Amen, Alleluja. It soon became very popular and was called, for brevity, the anthem,"
},
{
"from": "gpt... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(Xerxes), which was completed in the year 1738, marks what was very nearly the saddest time in his life. In order to redeem his word of honor and save himself from a debtor's prison, he worked with immoderate energy and yet with meagre material results. When he now found himself... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Esther, and the recollection of the work had never left him. He brought it out before a company of invited guests and thereby incited Handel to produce it publicly himself in May of the succeeding year. A performance of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Acis and Galatea... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ode to St. Cecilia, and in 1740 Milton's beautiful poem"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "[3] thus showing how he identified himself with the intellectual life of the English and the creations of their most eminent men. But his efforts seemed no longer to bear fruit, an... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "HARMONIOUS BOAR."
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "does not signify here a definite form of piano music, as with Bach and his German predecessors. The word indeed can only be translated by _series_, or _succession_. In this collection there is not one actual suite, but a number of different pieces for the piano are arranged in p... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is wretched stuff."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are right, said Handel,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought so myself, after I had written it."
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Messiah."
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Saul and in"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Judas Maccabaeus, to the gigantically towering, yet easily animated masses of the chorus in"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Israel in Egypt,"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Messiah"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Israel, a descriptive, as in the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Allegro, or with one which only _indicates_ events, like the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Messiah,"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Messiah,"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cassiano in Venice, in 1637, being the first), the noble simplicity striven for by those lovers of antiquity came to an end. The popular craving for the spectacular and the desire for music which was pleasing to the ear strongly affected the further growth of the opera. In Italy... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gluck und die Oper, I., 20) is that up to this time Gluck had held aloof from the piano,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "While for all the great masters of the century, for Bach as for Handel, for Mozart as for Beethoven, the piano was the basis of musical education, ... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Artaxerxes (1741), text by Metastasio. The success of this must have been pronounced, as the master, but twenty-eight years of age, immediately received commissions for opera compositions from Milan as well as from other cities of Italy. We know the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "La Caduta dei Giganti, written for London and brought out in the year 1746, was in the prescribed Italian vein. But from the initiated, the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "were not hidden. In his"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "History of Arts, Burney say... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Le Nozze d' Ercole e d' Ebe"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Semiramide riconosciuta,"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tetide (1749), given in the theatre of Castle Charlottesburg at Copenhagen at a birthday fête for the Crown Prince, afterward King Christian VII.; also the operas written for Rome and Naples,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Telemachus (1749) and"
},
{
"from": ... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Orfeo ed Euridice (Orpheus and Euridice), which was first given Oct. 5, 1762, in the Imperial Theatre at Vienna. This excited enthusiastic applause, but was received with disfavor and astonishment as well, for many of the hearers accustomed to the former style of the Italian ope... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My idea is that the overture should indicate the subject and prepare the spectators for the character of the piece they are about to see; that the instruments ought to be introduced in proportion to the degree of interest and passion in the words; and that it is necessary, above... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alceste and of its defiant preface gave the signal to break the staff over the head of the audacious disturber of the peace. One of the most prominent Berlin critics, Frederick Nicolai, did not hesitate to assert that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Alceste had no mer... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your Highness must already have read the drama 'Paris' and remarked that it does not offer to the composer those intense passions and tragic situations which in the 'Alceste' stir the souls of the spectators and afford opportunity for strong emotion. In this music you would as l... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Paris and Helen --the master bound himself to du Rollet, who agreed to prepare, with his help, Racine's"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Iphigénie in Aulis,"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Académie royale de musique (Royal Academy of Music), which was the official name of the Grand Opera, left much to be desired in singing, pronunciation, acting and all else. The dancers, who, until within a few years, had always entered with masks, entirely lacked the ability to ... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Iphigénie (19 April, 1774) was anticipated with excitement by all Paris. In literary circles--the so-called bureaux d'esprit (offices of wit)--there were arguments for and against Gluck. In the first place here was a composer who had spoken the apparently paradoxical words which... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lettre sur la musique française"
}
] |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "L'arbre enchanté (The Enchanted Tree) and the opera ballet"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "La Cythère assiégée (Cythera Besieged), when performed in Paris the following year (1775), found but a lukewarm welcome. The master had left Paris before the representation of t... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Echo and Narcissus (autumn of 1779) was coldly received, and after a few representations disappeared from the repertoire. From the fact that in this the master lavished his skill on a dull, dramatically ineffective text, we may conclude that he owed more to chance than to his li... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Orpheus, Raniero Calzabigi, the honor of having had a considerable share in the reform effected by our master. In view of the then prevailing indifference of the opera-lovers to the text, we cannot be surprised that the credit of the opera-reform was attributed to Gluck, whose n... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let well enough alone. Still more, if we look backward and contrast the greatest representative of the older Italian opera, Handel, with Gluck, we are astonished at the progress made by opera-music through the former. The old-fashioned ornate music of Handel has disappeared; tru... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alceste Gluck has exercised all his talent as composer in order to give the most intense musical expression to the evangel of devoted, self-sacrificing love. Naturally, it is to the noble, touching figure of the queen, wife and mother that he devotes the greatest love and care. ... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Paris and Helen the reader knows already that, in spite of the sanguine hopes of the composer, the work was decidedly rejected by the public. He will remember also that Gluck, in this case, was not disposed to recognize the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "as the"
},... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Paris and Helen may serve as a bridge from those works to which Gluck had given his whole creative strength and in which he had, so to speak, surpassed himself, to the works of the Parisian period, which is commonly regarded as the master's third period, though incorrectly, for ... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ne doutez jamais de ma flamme! than Clytemnestra's outburst of despair in the words"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Etouffez des soupirs trop indignes de vous ; than the scene of Agamemnon in the second act,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O, dieux, que v... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jerusalem Redeemed. Armide, the Queen of Damascus, is an enchantress, and with the help of her genius Hidraot, has beguiled into her net a number of the crusaders who had started with Gottfried von Bouillon for the Holy Land. The captured knights are to be delivered over to the ... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Armide Gluck made great concessions to gratify the love of the spectacular and the craving for the sensual of the opera-loving public; in the main, however, this opera owes its chief success to the earnestness with which the master performed his task as a dramatist. As an instan... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Unis dès la plus tendre enfance. In vain! He is powerless to banish the frightful memories of Orestes, who is plunged again into despair at the separation from his friend. His words,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Le calme rentre dans mon cœur, are only a self-delusi... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Je t'implore et je tremble, Déesse implacable, to spare her the frightful task of sacrificing the young stranger, but her supplications are unheeded. As she seizes the sacrificial knife with which she is to stab Orestes to the heart, the latter half-involuntarily exclaims:"
},... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Iphigénie in Tauris was the only one of Gluck's operas which was fully appreciated by the public at its first representation. How is this remarkable fact to be explained? First of all we should say, without hesitation, by the impressive force of the material which is qualified t... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have moments, he wrote on July 13th, 1776,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The year before, Wieland had spoken still more specifically in regard to the Gluck reform; in 1775, he wrote in the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "German Mercury :"
},
{
... |
54968 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Il préféra les Muses aux Sirènes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "ARMIDE."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "History of Music and the Theatre at the Court of Dresden,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Orpheus,"
}
] |
134606 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A man can do a lot in that time."
}
] |
217365 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Edwin! Edwin!"
}
] |
677097 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will not be able to bear it."
}
] |
30870 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Naething kenspeckle, [1] said he;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And he proposed I should buy winter hosen from a wife in the Cowgate-back, that was a cousin of his own, and made them"
}
] |
30870 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Madam, said I,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think it only fair to myself to let you understand I have no Gaelic. It is true I was listening, for I have friends of my own across the Highland line, and the sound of that tongue comes friendly; but, for your private ... |
30870 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have been sitting with one who was in the same case with yourself, said I,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Did ye so? cries she."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ye met Rob?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I passed the night with him,"
},
... |
30870 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thoucht ye had been a lad of some kind o' sense, he began, shooting out his lips."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ye're no' likely to gang far this gate. A fule and his siller's shune parted. Eh, but ye're a green callant! he cried,"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
30870 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As Mally Lee cam doun the street, her capuchin did flee, She cuist a look ahint her to see her negligee. And we're a' gaun east and wast, we're a' gaun ajee, We're a' gaun east and wast courtin' Mally Lee."
}
] |
30870 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Awa' east and wast wi' ye!"
}
] |
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