[8]. [Shylock]'s bridge. By the Rialto. A house by the bridge, said to be Shylock's, is still pointed out to visitors.
[18]. [clavichord]. An instrument of the type of the piano.
[19]. [ff]. [thirds], [sixths], etc. For the musical terms see an unabridged dictionary or a musical dictionary.
[30]. [Compare] the lines in Fitzgerald's translation of the Rubaiyat:—
"For some we loved, the loveliest and the best
That from his vintage rolling Time hath prest,
Have drunk their cup a round or two before,
And one by one crept silently to rest."
This is the characteristic note of poetic melancholy, found again and again from Virgil to Tennyson.
[37-39]. [Is] the ironical tone of these lines in harmony with the spirit of the rest of the poem?
What does Galuppi's music mean to Browning? What does it recall of the life in Venice? Is the lightness of tone in the music itself or in the poet's idea of Venice? What emotions are aroused? What causes the poet's sadness? Is the verse[page 258] musical? Does it suit the ideas it conveys?
ABT VOGLER. (PAGE [126].)
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