Word: major
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...other of the notes A C D E F or G (modes in B being unused) the place of tonic note. In the Harmonic style which at the Reformation succeeded Polyphony the modes of E F and G fell out of use. The mode of C became the modern major scale; and those in A and D united to form the modern minor. In this process of development the diatonic scale itself become modified for reasons which will be referred to in the lecture on Harmony...
...familiar with Major Higginson's generous gift of "The Soldiers' Field," and it remains with us to show our appreciation of the gift when the field is put into condition...
...have been pleased with the adverse report of the Overseers on the three years question, and have shown that the present system is best, whereby those who so desire, may finish if they are able in a shorter time than the average. We have thanked Major Higginson for the Soldiers' Field. The facilities for obtaining board in Cambridge have been shown to be too limited, and the proposed hotel system of carrying on Memorial has not been approved...
...concert closed with a remarkably spirited performance of Schubert's great C major symphony, which is the only symphony ever composed, except Schubert's other, in B minor, and some of Schumann's, that can rank with the best of Beethoven's. The magnificent passages for the trombones in the first movement, one of the finest things in all orchestral music; the opening passage on the hourns; the half-comic theme of the wood instruments, all were splendidly played. The andante conmoto, a long slow movement, is a trifle monotonous when played on the piano, but in the orchestra, with...
...like hypothesis would throw light upon the remarkable distinction in emotional character between the two forms of consonant chord, the Major and the Minor Triad. The former presents, through its fundamental tones, and their difference tones an approximately complete musical note; the Minor on the other hand gives fragments of three different notes. The Minor Triad is thus equivocal and unsatisfying, and to this fact may be due its tinge of melancholy...