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...following program will be rendered: Organ Prelude. Choral Prelude, Brahms Andante, Franck Organ Postlude. Great Fugue in G minor Choir Numbers Bach Hymn of Thanksgiving--Netherlands Folk-Song. March of the Magi, Horatio Parker De Profundis, Gregorian Chant...
Those who think Mr. Thomas Lawson's political advertisements better reading than the Monthly ought to look at Mr. C. V. Wright's essay, "A Lost Art". He champions the old Gregorian music like a Sir Kay; to him all church choirs not consecrated to the old plain chant are "merely formed for the use of tenors and fat women." Wagner, he says, "dissatisfied with the figure of the historic Christ, transformed him into a German prig with a nasty-minded distrust of feminity". That's Parsifal! There's plenty of go in the Monthly still. Mr. Pichel...
...eight large instruments and several smaller telescopes at the Observatory. The largest telescope is 15 inches in diameter and has a power of magnifying 5000 times. This instrument, the gift of the Hon. David Sears, was the nucleus upon which the Observatory was first started in 1843. The four Gregorian Reflectors of different diameters are used for photographic purposes only. Nearly all the modern instruments and appliances for surveying the heavens are at the Observatory A large part of the time signals of New England is furnished by the time service of the Observatory...
...17th century, and 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...