Word: flemish
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...carriages, while on each side of the carriage entrance and between that and the smaller entrances there will be a fountain, one for the people and the other for horses. The style of the whole work is Euglish of the seventeenth century, the bricks being laid in the "Flemish bond" to correspond with the main part of Harvard Hall. The centre posts will be 19 feet high, each capped with sandstone brought from Yorkshire, England. On the front of the centre posts there will be bas reliefs of the arms of Harvard College and the city of Cambridge...
...lastly the rise of modern instrumental music. Harmony was unknown in the earliest music; scales and notation were introduced, but the first experiment of harmony was made in the 9th century. Not till several centuries after did counterpoint come into use; it arose from the Gregorian chant. The old Flemish school received an illustration by a gloomy chorus of Josquin de Pres, the contrapuntal church style by a selection from a mass by Palestrina. Next came the popular and secular music especially of the troubadours and minnesingers. Of the English school a very old melody was sung, proving...
...Sever 11. The course of ten lectures which he proposes to give will take the form of historical concets, the lecture taking up a part of the time, and the soloists rendering selections illustrating the lecture at intervals during the evening. This evening the church music of the Flemish and Italian schools of the 15th and 16th centuries, and the music of the Troubadors, Popular Airs, Madrigals, etc., of the middle ages, will be the topics of the lecture. The remaining lectures will treat of the Opera, the Oratoric, and the Cantata from the 17th century to the present...
Historical Concert. Professor Paine assisted by Soloists. Sever 11, 7.45 P. M. Tickets at Sever's. ***Church music of Flemish and Italian masters of the 15th and 16th centuries, illustrated from Josquin, Lasso, and Palestrina; Songs of the Troubadours; early English and German popular airs; and English madrigals of the 16th century, illustrated from Dowland, Morley...