Crossword-Solution: VOCALISE 8 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Those which were brooding, as they flitted over the nests or clung to the edges, uttering a peculiar note hard to vocalise.

She was one of the most perfect singers I ever heard, and suggests to my memory the quaint praise of the gypsy vocal performance in the ballad of "Johnny Faa"-- "They sang so sweet, So very _complete_," She was the first Rosina I ever heard who introduced into the scene of the music-lesson "Rhodes Air," with the famous violin variations, which she performed by way of a _vocalise_, to the utter amazement of her noble music-master, I should think, as well as her audience.

These are followed by a vocalise or two, and a couple of songs or arias, which fill out the thirty minutes.

The tune is possibly based on one used by the Savoyard sweeps, for Tiersot refers to one such: "Avec sa bizarre vocalise descendante, d'un accent si étrange dans sa rudesse montagnarde-- "Ramonez-ci, ramonez-là, Sh-a-a-a-ah La cheminée du haut en bas." And this corresponds with the passage, "Aye and there," with its curious descent in our tune: Tiersot, "Hist.