human
King Saul, he appeals; at his best, _e.g._, in the
gpt
Soldier's Tent (song with orchestral accompaniment), he almost persuades. But the horrors of the empty tone masses hurled at one's head in the
human
Saul choruses, or of the purple patches of Wagnerian orchestration associated with inept vocal phrases in the principal monologue of the same oratorio--those horrors are so very genuine, whereas the charm of such a song as the
gpt
Soldier's Tent, where the composer keeps comparatively well to the point and scores with comparative aptness, is still somewhat doubtful. A remark of Mr. Fuller Maitland's helps me to a possible explanation of the something wrong. He commends the
human
of
gpt
When icicles hang by the wall in Parry's English Lyrics. Now I have certainly never heard that song, but I must have read it somewhere, for I distinctly remember the humorous and expressive accompaniment at the words
human
It also comes back to me that other passages, such as all that eight-part counterpoint at the end of
gpt
Blest Pair of Sirens,