Word: exhibited
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Geological Conference. Papers by Mr. R. E. Dodge, "Types of Mountain Structure;" Mr. R. S. Tarr, "The Geology of Texas." Professor Davis will exhibit a working model of the faulted Triassic monocline of the Connecticut Valley. Geological Laboratory...
...structural characteristic first to be noticed in them is that the changes of pitch they exhibit are not contiguous but discrete: a musical composition consists of a mass of different notes, the closest together of which in pitch are still distinctly separate. In the vocal production of tone this character of discontinuity is the result of a constraint exercised upon the organs of voice; in the case of most instruments of music nothing else is possible. The hypothesis that the suggestion for an art of discontinuous pitch came from the notes of sounding bodies is a theory of the instrumental...
...embody its interval order, and it is to this fact that we may attribute the entire subjection of the art of music to generic interval, orders or scales. But in the forms they have taken we may perhaps find evidence of an independent tendency in vocal music to exhibit scale-structure...
...last of these plays the exaggerated and labored characteristics stand out with especial clearness. Mr. Moulton compared their action to the batter in a cricket match. They stand up and exhibit their peculiarities till they are bowled out and disappear to make room for the next. Form and plot in these plays are sacrificed to the satire. They are not plays but dramatic satires. The Elizabethan age was suited to this literary form as it abounded in characters who courted conspicuousness...
...conclusion the lecturer showed how the characters who are primarily scene shifters and are continually used to exhibit the ridiculous humours of other people and finally to put them out, themselyes have humours which they continue parading until checked. So it was with Carlo Buffone whose tastes for teasing and good living were both extinguished when Sir Puntarvolo filled up his mouth with hot sealing wax. Mr. Moulton received enthusiastic applause after he had finished, which testified to his success in delighting his audience...