Harmonist

And so, John, I mean, you know, given that Lucy is a dominant harmonist, did you have concrete ideas about how you wanted her to sing it? ❋ Unknown (2010)

And he who mingles music with gymnastics in the fairest proportions, and best attempers them to the soul, may be rightly called the true musician and harmonist in a far higher sense than the tuner of the strings. ❋ Unknown (2006)

As a verbal melodist, especially a melodist of sweetness and of stately grace, and as a harmonist of prolonged and complex cadences, he is unsurpassable. ❋ Robert Huntington Fletcher (N/A)

If the fourth gospel is held to be of apostolic origin and trustworthy, the task of the harmonist is chiefly that of combining these two records of Mark and John. ❋ Rush Rhees (N/A)

It is highly significant that the account of the most indubitable fact in the view of the early Christians is the most difficult portion of the gospels for the exact harmonist to deal with. ❋ Rush Rhees (N/A)

Can you believe in harmony without believing in a harmonist? ❋ Various (N/A)

The Wagnerian _leit-motif_ idea is adopted in this and other works of his, and the chief objection to his writing is its too great fidelity to the Wagnerian manner, -- notably in the use of suspensions and passing-notes, -- otherwise he is a very powerful harmonist and an instrumenter of rare sophistication. ❋ Rupert Hughes (1914)

Gleason is less successful as a melodist than as a harmonist. ❋ Rupert Hughes (1914)

To this period (from 1640) belong two new series in which Velazquez 'formula becomes elaborated into his latest manner and the qualities of observer, artist, and harmonist are blended to produce the unparalleled masterpieces of 1655. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

As erecter of truth and confirmer of the faith, as propounder of dogmas, harmonist of piety, abode of purity, select receptacle, the sweet smell of the Spirit, the great treasury of doctrines and the foundation of the church of Christ - we know thee, O God inspired (mentioned by name), sacred father. ❋ Anonymous (1899)

There, during the long midsummer evenings, they two would sit down for hours in the organ-gallery, while I listened down below; hardly believing that such heavenly sounds could come from those small child-fingers; almost ready to fancy she had called down some celestial harmonist to aid her in playing. ❋ Unknown (1897)

A master of composition, modelling, and drawing, a master of light, and a color-harmonist of the rarest ability, he, in addition, possessed the most certain, adroit, and facile hand that ever handled a paint-brush. ❋ John Charles Van Dyke (1894)

Incidentally he wrote some incomprehensible poems and a few pages of harmonious prose, for, you must know, "a magician is nothing else but a great harmonist." ❋ Joseph Conrad (1890)

Arabic, we find in by far the greater portion of it, from the Sermon on the Mount to the Last Supper (§§ 30-134) that Tatian, like his brother harmonist Ammonius, took St. Matthew as the basis of his work ... ❋ Walter R. Cassels (1866)

There during the long midsummer evenings, they two would sit for hours in the organ-gallery, while I listened down below; hardly believing that such heavenly sounds could come from those small child-fingers; almost ready to fancy she had called down some celestial harmonist to aid her in playing. ❋ Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1856)

And he who mingles music with gymnastic in the fairest proportions, and best attempers them to the soul, may be rightly called the true musician and harmonist in a far higher sense than the tuner of the strings. ❋ 427? BC-347? BC Plato (1855)

But like a musician, in a gentle and harmonious tone of voice, he would answer: 'My good friend, he who would be a harmonist must certainly know this, and yet he may understand nothing of harmony if he has not got beyond your stage of knowledge, for you only know the preliminaries of harmony and not harmony itself.' ❋ 427? BC-347? BC Plato (1855)