Word: hansons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...somewhat more exact account of music's emotional effects than music's much-reputed power to soothe the human breast was attempted last week in the American Journal of Psychiatry by lanky, bearded Dr. Howard Hanson, dean of Rochester's Eastman School of Music. Dr. Hanson's conclusions pointed to possible uses of music in controlling emotion, and perhaps to a new wrinkle in esthetic theory. His main conclusion...
Playing variations on this theme, Dr. Hanson implied connections between dissonance and passion, sex, revolutionary ardor and crime. Thus when Wagner, in the Lohengrin Prelude, wished to evoke virginal purity, he used far fewer dissonances than in the Tannhduser Bacchanale. Palestrina's contemporary, Don Carlo Gesualdo, a 16th-Century rapscallion who ended by hacking his wife to pieces with a knife, used far more dissonances than pious Palestrina...
...Michael Joseph De Leo Lawrence Creshkoff William Francis Di Pesa Worth Bagley Daniels, Jr. Peter Garland Michael David Fansler Nicholas Chester Gilles Frederick Wellman Flickinger Edward Perry Harding Wallace Joseph Flynn Dean McDonald Hennessy Robert Crittenden Green Colin Franklin Newell Irving Allen Wilkinson Greer Charles Mellish Kidner Harlan Philip Hanson James Edmund McNulty, Jr. Robert Mayes Hart Richard Watson Mechem Stephen Bradshaw Ives, Jr. Sedgwick Minot, Jr. Russell Scot Leavitt Maurice Machado Osborne, Jr. Paul Latshaw Miller Francis Parkman, Jr. Frank Hoyt Powell Paul Franklin Perkins, Jr. Joseph Loomis Ray, Jr. Albert Clinton Petite Robert E. Lee Rochelle Donald Westgate...
...Harlan Hanson...
Divided Command. The nearer Hanson Baldwin got to the fighting front, the closer he found the cooperation between Army and Navy. At the top he found fairly close integration, with room for improvement. It was in the middle ranks, particularly among airmen, that he found the most recrimination and distrust. One reason: the Army's exaggerated reports on the role of Army bombers in the Battle of Midway (Baldwin: "The Navy's carriers did the job"). Baldwin saw Navy, Marine and Army men in almost identical khaki, working "in close harmony in combat areas," concluded: "There...