Word: musicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tomorrow night the second informal House Dance of the year will be held in the Junior Common Room. Phonograph records will provide the music for dancing from 8 o'clock until...
Kent Bartlett and his orchestra will provide the music for the Kirkland House Christmas Dance on December 9. Dancing will be from 8 until 12 o'clock. Thomas F. Gladwin '39 is chairman of the Dance Committee and Elliott H. Phillips '40 will be head usher. The other ushers are: Joseph Frank '39, John '40, Neil Rawlinson 3G, and Francis M. Simpson...
...examining the exhibited printings, it is possible to trace the development of music printing. In the first fifty years after printing was invented, from 1450 to 1500, no effective system was discovered for writing notes; but, in 1503, Ottavino dei Petrucci contrived movable type of sufficient accuracy to cope with the demands of the elaborate new "florid song," or counterpoint. There is shown a unique selection of Petrucci's editions, which required separate impressions for letters, staffs, and notes...
...Library's collection is chiefly noted for a very rare group of the works of John Playford, an English music publisher of the late seventeenth century. To the casual viewer, Playford's "An Introduction to the Skill of Music" may appear very striking, since it provides first-hand information of the ideas which people held about music...
...especially noteworthy unit of the exhibition is a copy of the first edition of Gaforius's "Practical Musicae," which was the most important book on music theory in the Renaissance...