Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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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...
...toiled in thought" before the world arrived at that conception of one over-ruling deity which is as natural to us as the air we breath. At the time of the prophets the thinking men of all nations were engaged in an intense and almost vain struggle to grasp the idea of one God. Great minds, like Plato, rose at times to a clear monotheistic conception. But the people of all nations save one were wandering in the outer darkness of polytheism, with no apparent exit. To the Hebrews it was given, and to them alone, to arrive...