Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...everywhere and seldom played a piece without being recalled. The reportoire of the clubs contained very little classical music, old college melodies and comic airs mainly composing the progarmmes. The following pieces, played and sung, by the clubs, illustrate the style of music which they adopted. "Old Nassan," "Daylight is on the sea," "Come Rally," "Mein Heer Van Dunck," "Catastrophe," "Dat Watermillion," "A Dainty Sweet Maiden is Mary," "Schneider's Band," "The Princeton Medley...
...Daylight on the Sea, Carm. Yalen Warble by Mr. Richards...
...worth seeing. Long before dark the streets were thronged with eager multitudes hurrying to advantageous positions whence to view the spectacle. Perhaps the favorite place was on the Heiligenberg, the lofty hill across the Neckar, and there I took my stand in the garden of the Philosophenhoche. Gradually the daylight faded, and starless night came down. Heidelberg was only a confusion of twinkling lights, and on the vast black hill which loomed precipitously behind it there was nothing to mark the location of the castle. All was impenetrable gloom. The lights from the Fest Halle made long, narrow streaks...
...next meeting by changing the ball trap to another pit. The final competition, by the score in which the winners are to be divided, will be shot on Thursday next, the 11th. At the close of the regular matches yesterday, it was found that there was still enough daylight left for another round at the trape, and several men took advantage of the opportunity to secure further practice. The summary...
This is a very fair specimen of gloom of another kind than that used by the "sea" poets. It has the weirdness and ghastliness of a silly ghost story told in full daylight, and produces about as much real effect on the hearer...