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In Italy, where Music as a study, and as a
study that has descended and spread itself among the
general mass of the people, is of so much closer date,
the connection between drinking and music, even
vocal music, and in the lowest mouths, is scarce if at all discernible: devotion,
love, moral sentiment, any thing rather than drinking
is the mean subject of song even the most popular
among songs. The favorite song of the Sicilian
Mariners is a hymn to the Virgin: the most popular
among all songs in France, while France was France,
the song which by its simple the simplicity of its charms
subdued all Europe to French Music, the "Air de
Malbrouck" was a little elegy, simple even to affected silliness,
but without the most distinct allegiance to glance at drinking.
Among English Mariners, a song is scarce a song
with gin and flip in it. But Though even in England
now at the close of the century the proportion of
drinking songs to others is sensibly less, and considerably
less, than at the middle or the beginning or the middle of
it.
Identifier: | JB/149/058/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 149.
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