Word: minors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...general confined. That one of the old church tonalities (in C) which could, with slight changes from the Pythagorean model, give major triads on all these three notes met best of all the tonic demand upon harmonic structure and became the Standard Major mode of modern times. The modern minor is a development from two other church tonalities, those...
...particularly good chance to display their purity of tone and their finished style of playing. Although Cherubini wrote this overture many years ago, he uses the trombones and other instruments in quite modern style, and introduces several grand climaxes. The second piece was a concerto for piano in C minor, by St. Saens. Mrs. Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler played the solo part in a very brilliant manner, overcoming with little effort the technical difficulties of the work. Her tone and touch were sympathetic and thoroughly musical, while her dashing style of execution carried the audience with her from beginning...
...meeting of the meeting of the minor Intercollegiate Athletic Association Saturday it was voted to hold the annual games at Springfield...
...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...
...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...