The whole scena is admirably written for the voice, and contains many graceful passages of great melodic charm.
"Style in Singing"
W. E. Haslam
Travellers, who have penetrated the confines of remote and savage countries, have told us of the curious chanting of their inhabitants when engaged in what, to them, were their religious and festal celebrations; and as we cannot conceive man in a more primitive condition, we may take it, that in prehistoric times there was a limited melodic form, which afforded that peculiar delight to the savage mind, that the glorious polyphonic combination of to-day, give to the cultured races of Eastern and Western civilisation.
"The Operatic Problem"
William Johnson Galloway
For centuries Europe had been on the wrong track with its melodic experimenting, its complex of harmonies.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker