Fermo

Word FERMO
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July 20, 2009 at 2:03 pm err…umm…we canz turn down da fermo… tempz…make it less cowld inna my nappy plais? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Tutto in questo video, dai titoli coi colori slavati, fino al fermo immagine finale, urla anni ottanta. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It has been pointed out by Liliencron [17] that what appears at first sight to be rhythmic chaos in the polyphonic _Volkslied_ is really a highly artistic and effective device for bringing the _canto fermo_ -- the ancient tune -- into prominence; whilst the other voices are generally in ❋ George Ainslie Hight (N/A)

The change was very gradual, but the _Volkslied_ in its latest and most complete development is practically an instrumental composition, retaining, however, its bond with the past on the one hand through the words, on the other through the _canto fermo_ in the tenor, the familiar ancient tune round which the counterpoint was woven in a kind of canonical imitation, first (fifteenth century) in three parts then ❋ George Ainslie Hight (N/A)

_Primo Libra di Messe_ on the _canto fermo_ of the hymn _Conditor alme siderum_ is published in modern notation in the _Anthologie des maîtres religieux primitifs_ of the _Chanteurs de Saint Gervais_. ❋ Various (N/A)

Later Pius X, by his encyclical "Il fermo proposito" (11 June, 1905) modified the Non Expedit, declaring that, when there was question of preventing the election of a "subversive" candidate, the bishops could ask for a suspension of the rule, and invite the Catholics to hold themselves in readiness to go to the polls. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The Italian mottetto was originally (in the thirteenth century) a profane polyphonic species of music, the air, or melody, being in the Tenor clef, taking the then acknowledged place of the canto fermo or plainchant, theme. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

While the chant melody has been frequently used as a canto fermo for polyphonic Masses, the polyphonic settings are few compared with many hymns of less prominence. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

He exercised his contrapuntal ingenuity by devising schemes for circumventing this troublesome passage in the canto fermo of his life without breaking any of the rules, and finally hit upon the device of running away. ❋ Henry Festing Jones (1889)

In life we have destiny from which there is no escape; in counterpoint we have the canto fermo of which not a note may be altered. ❋ Henry Festing Jones (1889)

The afternoon breeze was conducting a symphony of perfumes, and, as we strolled among the blossoms that were the orchestra, we could identify the part played by each flower; sometimes one became more prominent, sometimes another, but always through the changing harmonies we could distinguish the stately canto fermo of the roses, counterpointed with a florid rhythm from the zagara. ❋ Henry Festing Jones (1889)

Destiny, like the canto fermo, is dictated for us by One who is more learned and more skilful than we; it is for us to accept what is given, and to compose a counterpoint, many counterpoints, that shall flow over and under and through, without breaking any of the rules, until we reach the full close, which is the inevitable end of both counterpoint and life. ❋ Henry Festing Jones (1889)

He transposed the ecclesiastical melody (canto fermo) from the tenor to the soprano (thus rendering it more intelligible to the ear), and created that glorious thing choir song, with its refined harmony, that noble music of which his works are the models, and the papal chair the oracle. ❋ Ferris, George T (1878)

On the other hand, the reading of Dante, Shakespeare, St. Jerome's compact verses on the Hebrew, and Middle Age prose excites within me a whole world of ideas, like Wagner's music, _canto-fermo_, and Beethoven. ❋ Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron (1877)

She and her husband tuned their scythes in two - part, note-against-note counterpoint; but I could hear that it was she who was the canto fermo and he who was the counterpoint. ❋ Samuel Butler (1868)

The voices of common sense and of high philosophy sometimes cross; but common sense is the unalterable canto fermo and philosophy is the variable counterpoint. ❋ Samuel Butler (1868)

In the very sound of it there is a _canto fermo_; it proceeds as by a chant. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

We know the melody eventually by Rousseau, to whose songs it is printed; it has properly no melodious movement, and is a sort of medium between the canto fermo and the canto figurato; it approaches to the former by recitativical declamation, and to the latter by passages and course, by which one syllable is detained and embellished. ❋ Isaac Disraeli (1807)

Olimpiadi di Athens 2004, prova del chilometro da fermo. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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