Word: eclecticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When you reported that I had identified "an obscure melody" as Mendelssohn's War March of the Priests [TIME, Feb. i], I must say I was flattered by the inference that my musical knowledge was so eclectic and vast. Dear me, the reason why I knew the name of...
The woodwind quintet form, however, no matter how perfectly achieved by these men from Philadelphia, can never even approach the chamber music ideal of the string quartet. For one thing, these five woodwind instruments which have somehow found a place in the modern orchestra after centuries of experimentation and sifting...
Whether Rouault's art will be honored in future as it is now is obviously anyone's guess. His deceptively coarse technique smacks of archaism; it derives partly from Romanesque sculpture and partly from Gothic stained glass. He has not enlarged the bounds of art but only formed...
Somber in his black coat and stovepipe hat, a tall young man slouched in the saddle one fall afternoon in 1826 while his horse ambled into the little village of Oxford, Ohio. Even as he rode he read, and his saddlebags bulged with volumes of Livy and Horace, Ovid and...
In his textbooks, McGuffey presented an ambitious package: reading material for children of all ages, a fine anthology of old favorites, and a stern, explicit code of morals. Before they finally faded from U.S. schools in the early 1900s, the six Eclectic Readers and the Eclectic Spelling Book (edited by...