Monteverde found the conditions of dramatic music more favourable to his experiments than those of choral music, in which both voices and ears are at their highest sensibility to discord.

a sickly autumn; a sickly climate

The music of George Gershwin’s Porgie and Bess was inspired in part by Gullah shouts.

While the Germans of Gaul, Italy, and Spain became Romans, the Saxons retained their language, their genius, and manners, and created in Britain a Germany outside of Germany.