Word: colors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...greatest influence with the editors themselves is the fact that there is nothing in the old name immediately to connect the paper in the mind of the non-college world with Harvard. Crimson outside of the immediate vicinity of the college is probably as often thought of as the color of some other college as it is as that of Harvard. It is desirable that the paper should be plainly marked as an Harvard organ; hence the change of name which is made this morning. We certainly hope that under its new name the paper shall continue to enjoy...
...orchestral music; the opening passage on the hourns; the half-comic theme of the wood instruments, all were splendidly played. The andante conmoto, a long slow movement, is a trifle monotonous when played on the piano, but in the orchestra, with the ever varying varieties of tone-color of the different instruments, the effect is far differenct...
...PITCH.The basis of music is the sensation of pitch. This is a generic sensation, like color, consisting of many elements which taken together form a continuous series between two extremes. With this continuum the spatial ideas of height and depth have come to be associated, for reasons derived both from the nature of the sensation and the conditions of its production at the two extremes. The sequence of different pitches presents itself to the mind as a movement, and especially through these associations as a movement up or down in space. This is an important source of musical expressiveness...
...Scherzo from Symphony in Friminor by Tschaikowsky, and Symphony in B flat by Schumann. The Andantino of the Tschaikowsky Symphony is somewhat dry and contrapuntal, but the Scherzo, besides being exceedingly musical, is a really wonderful study in orchestration, with its novel pizzicato effect and its contrasts of tone-color between strings and wind...
...Roman one. The mother of the Gracchi is called upon to display her jewels, and brings as her jewels her children. The figure of her mother is a very beautiful one. The glass in the whole window has been selected with great care, and is very brilliant in color, paint being used only for the flesh tints...