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...beat of the music. Other characteristics in the flow of sound composing a piece of music result in a larger periodic structure; these may be, apart from actual interruptions of continuity, the tendency of musical movement to repeat itself, or to delay upon a long held note or chord, or to change completely in character. A portion of musical texture outlined in this way is called a phrase, subject or theme. The compass of these larger periodicities in composition exhibits a great degree of uniformity, two, four, eight or sixteen bars being their commonest duration. This structure of beats bars...
...like hypothesis would throw light upon the remarkable distinction in emotional character between the two forms of consonant chord, the Major and the Minor Triad. The former presents, through its fundamental tones, and their difference tones an approximately complete musical note; the Minor on the other hand gives fragments of three different notes. The Minor Triad is thus equivocal and unsatisfying, and to this fact may be due its tinge of melancholy...
...those of us who are beginning to realize that the promised improvements which were to result from the new janitor system are a delusion and a snare, the second editorial strikes a responsive chord. The better service which we have all summer been persuading ourselves we were to have this year has not yet materialized. And a great many of us miss the old janitors; they understood our ways better than these new comers, and we resent a change which has not conduced in the least to our comfort or convenience...
...Banjo Club also made a great hit, and though it be '91, can show certain other clubs in college the result of careful work. Their selections are also very appropriate. There was an innovation in the way of a concert solo by Mr. Wendell, who played Sullivan's "Lost Chord." It is a long time since a good wind instrument has been heard in college, making a pleasing feature of a programme...
...term of four years two violins and a violoncello were the only stringed instruments in the club, or in the college at large. French horns, and bass-horns called "semi-brass monsters" were occasional innovations, but we learn that on more than one occasion these instruments "did not chord with the flutes...