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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...simpler compositions is in 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...
...true, but there is lacking that controlling element which is to be found in the Psalms, the formulation of the communion of the soul with God. For this reason the Psalms were the hymn book of the Jews and continue to this day to be the hymn book of modern Christian nations...
...Modern Language Conference. A small reform in French spelling. Professor Cohn.- Nicolaus Lenau's visit to America. Mr. E. Emerson.- The sources of the 'Chevalier au Lyon' of Chretein de Troyes. Mr. C. H. C. Wright. Sever...
...first piece was Cherubini's severe and tragical overture, Anacreon, which gave the stringed instruments a 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...
...texture of notes making up a modern European musical composition is emphasized at successive intervals in general equal, the attack of the separate notes marking out either these moments of intensification or divisions or subdivisions of them, dual or triple. This period of intensification is called a bar, its dual or triple division the beat of the music. Other characteristics in the flow of sound composing a piece of music result in a larger periodic structure; these may be, apart from actual interruptions of continuity, the tendency of musical movement to repeat itself, or to delay upon a long held...