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Cervus  n.  (Zool.) A genus of ruminants, including the red deer and other allied species. Note: Formerly all species of deer were included in the genus Cervus.





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... unquestionably the author could not recognize his work in such rendering. Quite different was the method of the singers in the Sistine Chapel when I heard them for the first time in Rome in 1855 when they sung the "Sicut Cervus" of Palestrina. They roared in a head-splitting way without the least regard for the pleasure of the listener, or for the meaning of the words they sang. It is difficult to believe that this music was ever composed to be executed ...
— On the Execution of Music, and Principally of Ancient Music • Camille Saint-Saens
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Words linked to "Cervus" :   wapiti, American elk, Cervus sika, Cervus elaphus, genus Cervus, sika, Japanese deer, family Cervidae, sambar


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