Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...discussions are the regular thing, and the patience of peaceful readers is put to a severe strain. Of course most of the offenders are lower classmen; and until they are old enough to learn that a library is not intended as a resort other than for the purposes of quiet study, it seems only fair that the privilege of the room should be denied to them...
...first number on the program was Beethovens Symphony No. 8 in F. sometimes called the "little" symphony. Beethoven was in a quiet Austrian town when he composed it, in one of the dreariest periods of his life. Yet the Symphony contains more of the light and lively element than any of the other eight. The first movement has very little complexity of theme and is comparatively simple in detail. The second movement is the finest of the four though the end is surprising and perhaps disappointing. The minuet movement is certainly disappointing, Berlioz says of it, "somewhat ordinary." The finale...
...accompaniment by the violins and a sort of echo by the harp. Toward the end the whole orchestra works up to a climax and then softens and ends with a pianissimo passage. In the third movement there are some very difficult parts for the flute. The fourth is quiet in the first theme and ends in a burst of sound from the whole orchestra...
...Scherzo from Midsummer-Night's Dream is bright and lively, and full of surprises. The violins have a very intricate series of passages which require the greatest unity of sound for good effect. The Notturno is, of course, a decided contrast to the Scherzo. It contains many quiet melodies, some of them very suggestive of church music. The movement ends with a sustained high note on the violins and a quiet accompaniment by the rest of the orchestra, the whole sound fading away till it is lost...
There was also a mass of anonymous ballads, dealing with battle and murder and love and Nature. These ballads were many of them very remarkable. Through them there comes the ring or freedom and the quiet sincerity of peasant life. They sing of the hardihood of noble Scotland...