Word: chorales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chamber music concerts will be given by the Chardon String Quartet in Brattle Hall on five Thursday evenings, December 15, January 19, February 16, March 16, and April 20 respectively, it was announced yesterday. E.B. Hill '94, Chairman of the Division of Music, and A.T. Davison '06, Professor of Choral Music and Director of the Glee Club, are two of the sponsors of the sponsors of the project...
...History of Music covers the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries of musical history in Europe, beginning with the formation of schools in England, France, and the Gallo-Belgic Provinces. With the limits of the subject set up as described, it follows that the bulk of the work is concerned with choral forms of music. Instrumental music during the Middle Ages was confined to single instruments such as organs, spinnets, lutes, and flageolets, of which the various masters had their individual styles and communicated them to the pupils. These influences checked the production of written instrumental music, while choral forms come down...
...until the mid-sixteenth century the development was a national one. The spread of printing, the tendency of composers to look to the horizontal aspect of their music as well as the vertical one, and the perfection of the art of diatonic composition have a unifying effect on the choral music performed after that time. Mr. Wooldridge devotes generous portions of his book to a discussion of Lassus, Byrd, and Palestrina...
...Beyond the covers of the book Dr. Davison provides Harvard readers with many interpretations of the motets of the period, and of plainsong of still earlier times, since much of the music used in the Memorial Church has been gleaned from this formulative period in the history of choral music...
Although plans are still somewhat tentative, the Club expects to present the "Damnation of Faust," by Hector Berlioz, in conjunction with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Radcliffe Choral Society, some time later in the year. This idea was suggested by Mr. Koussevitzky, director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...