Richard Strauss, in his edition of Berlioz's works on Instrumentation, paradoxically characterizes the classical orchestral style as that which was derived from chamber-music. Now it, is true that in Haydn's early days orchestras were small and generally private; and that the styles of orchestral and chamber music were not distinct; but surely nothing is clearer than that the whole history of the rise of classical chamber-music lies in its rapid differentiation from the coarse-grained orchestral style with which it began. [Please select]
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Yet paradoxically, he lacked the moral courage to close them--to admit to himself that he was afraid. [Please select]
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Caution, my dear Kronberg, if I may fall into epigram, is frequently and paradoxically the mother of disaster. [Please select]
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It is quite impossible--unless one is a poetical genius--to reproduce on paper that gone and sickly sensation which is, paradoxically, so exquisite. [Please select]
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She was, paradoxically, his kind of a person--such was the form the puzzle took. [Please select]
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But, paradoxically, this superficial commonplaceness only heightened the tensity of the thing that underlay it. [Please select]
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Her very manner of camaraderie seemed paradoxically to increase the distance between us. [Please select]
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Paradoxically enough, Victoria received the highest eulogiums for assenting to a political evolution, which, had she completely realised its import, would have filled her with supreme displeasure. [Please select]
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But then the ground changed, the light improved, the trees thinned, and the undergrowth became more dense--and, paradoxically, the rate of progress improved. [Please select]
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