Word: discordances
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...Element of Discord" which follows is decidedly an interesting and attractive story chiefly, we suppose, because it is flattering to our national pride. In addition to this it is well written and the background is cleverly drawn...
...life, are so strangely intermingled, and especially did the fitness show itself, in the ending of the last number where the imaginative mind readily sees, as the composer intended, the triumph of an individuality over circumstance, the quiet close of a life lived in harmony with the good, and discord with the bad. This service, so suggestive, so symbolic of the beauty of Mr. Lowell's life, must have deepened the feeling of reverence and love which Harvard and Cambridge have felt for the student and poet...
...Peer Gynt," the orchestra showed itself in its best form. This whole work is full of exceedingly odd chords and combinations of chords, and the time and tune were perfect. It may be taken as an evidence of skill in a violinist for instance, that he can play a discord when it is demanded, for to the true musician this is as hard as it is easy for the unskilled. In "Peer Gynt" there are several of these well placed discords and their rendering last night was an evidence of the greatness of the orchestra...
...with God, and to keep others, is worth the trying for every son of man. Each man is here with his own religious traditions, gotten in his family connections. What is one to do with this tradition? Here at Harvard other traditions are heard, and then will come the discord, and so it will be necessary to sing a new and better song. The greatest benefit in college is to develope and strengthen the mind, to allow a new religion, of which the old was a root, to enter. If it is not in harmony with the old religion, look...
Besides this centralization of harmony upon the tonic note, the grasp of compositions as chord sequences which is characteristic of modern music-listening has led to a demand for relationship by common notes between successive chords and to a greatly extended use of the resolution of discord. These changes are evidence of a capacity for growth in the art to which it seems impossible to set limits...