Word: pres
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...earliest music; scales and notation were introduced, but the first experiment of harmony was made in the 9th 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...
JOHN HAYS GARDINER, Pres...
...current discussion aroused by President Eliot's speech at the Nineteenth Century Club, President Webb of New York University, and Pres. White of Cornell represented the extreme elements in the two wings of the party which is opposed to President Eliot's radical views. How little unanimity exists between the two wings is shown by the following quotations from the two Presidents...
...McCosh repeated by special request, his reply to Pres. Eliot's address recently delivered before the 19th Century Club in New York, composed of Princeton professors, and under-graduates...
...AMES, Pres...