Word: complexes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...melody as the "divinest element" in music, he continues: "The next most important element in dramatic music is dissonance. The more acute the dissonance, the more intense the emotional effect." We are not sure what he means by this, but take it that he has reference to passages containing complex harmonies and unusual or complicated progressions. But therein, as the composer knows, the separate chords may not be dissonances; on the contrary, they must be capable of strict analysis, otherwise they cease to be music. Neither must progressions by too ambiguous on penalty of the effect being flat and dull...
...that the system he personifies is corrupt. Nor does she gain an easy victory over him; indeed, at the end of the play, she herself realizes that to overturn a power rooted in the craven nature of the people, is a work of incalculable slowness. Magee, too, is a complex character, in whom sincerity and trickery are mingled in a very natural manner. The story of the struggle between these two, quite apart from its political significance, is interesting. The third act is somewhat slow and preachy, but the others hold the attention by the richness and variety of their...
...phrasing and confident assertions of the article. But the "piece de resistance" of the number is a longer and more careful article by Louis D. Kornfield '14 entitled "The Political Triangle." The article is well written, showing careful preparation and a real grasp of the essentials of a peculiarly complex and interesting political situation and for this article alone it would be worth while for undergraduates to read the issue. There is also what seems to me a typical utterance of the stand-patter,--a graceful statement of well worn and out worn Republican platitudes by ex-Governor Long. There...
From such a bit of false realism it is pleasant to turn to Miss Lincoln's play, "A Piece of Ivory." Here we have real people, who are true because they are complex. The little play is very far from being a great drama, but it is good, sound, healthful, consistent work that vividly touches the emotions...
...subject of Count Albert Apponyi's address yesterday afternoon was "Some Aspects of the Constitutional Growth of Hungary and her Relationship with Austria." Count Apponyi was introduced by President Lowell as one who had taken an active part in solving one of the most complex problems of statesmanship that had ever confronted any nation...