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Dates: during 1880-1889
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After the Restoration, Italian opera was introduced into England; the most popular writer was Purcell, whose style was exemplified by the song "I Attempt from Love's Sickness to Fly," which has also been recently given in the Sanders Theatre series. In all, about a dozen illustrations were sung, which were heartily applauded. The next lecture will take up the early instrumental music to the time of Bach., and will come after the recess...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- N. H. 4 is one of the very valuable and most popular courses in college. Therefore, every attempt should be made to have the lecture room in its comfortableness in accordance with the popularity and interest of the course. But complaints are continually made that the lectureroom is altogether too hot for the enjoyment of the lectures. Men who climb to such a height as the top of the Museum, expect to get above the regions of intense heat; but in these expectations they are terribly disappointed. A temperature of eighty or ninety degrees, Farenheit...
President Eliot's annual report shows that the elective system has not hurt the classics, and that some of the most difficult studies are the most popular. Here is a nut for those to crack who believe that an undergraduate knows nothing and is criminally lazy.- Brunonian...
...century. Not till several centuries after did counterpoint come into use; it arose from the Gregorian chant. The old Flemish school received an illustration by a gloomy chorus of Josquin de Pres, the contrapuntal church style by a selection from a mass by Palestrina. Next came the popular and secular music especially of the troubadours and minnesingers. Of the English school a very old melody was sung, proving to be a tender, delightful...
...form of historical concets, the lecture taking up a part of the time, and the soloists rendering selections illustrating the lecture at intervals during the evening. This evening the church music of the Flemish and Italian schools of the 15th and 16th centuries, and the music of the Troubadors, Popular Airs, Madrigals, etc., of the middle ages, will be the topics of the lecture. The remaining lectures will treat of the Opera, the Oratoric, and the Cantata from the 17th century to the present day; also instrumental music from the 16th century to the present...