Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...just published a small book of poems, written by Miss Minna Caroline Smith, of the Harvard Annex, and entitled, "In Fruitful Lands and Other Poems." The poems are all extremely ambitious; but it would be wrong to say that many of them are not also very successful. The excellent rhythm and the charming sincerity are characteristics that are always attractive, partly because at the present time at least, they are rather uncommon. Some of these poems suggest real ability and poetic taste, Although in places the poetic sentiment seems to have been sacrificed to rhyme and metre and although many...
...catch the mantle of Tennyson when it falls, yet the national character seems likely to favor the growth of a new school of poetry that may in the near future take rank with the best of England's. We are not giving our best attention to the details of rhythm; we have earnest convictions backed by a strong desire to do our best in maintaining them; we are sufficiently intimate with England to absorb some of her sweetness and light without necessarily losing our own innate fire and strength; so thus far we seem likely to advance in poetical achievement...
...Rhythm and education, by G. Stanley Hall...
...while the fast movements are mere tunes in the jig style, the slow movements are mere rhythmical statements of a melody. There is no attempt at a regular structure or at a working up of the material, and this fault it is attempted to conceal by skilful changes of rhythm. The whole tone of the work is not much higher than that of the following ballet music, and considerably lower than much ballet music of other writers. Mr. Louis Schmidt, Jr., played a "Fantansia Appassionata" for violin by Neutemps with a remarkable execution. It is of a class of compositions...
While the music's dreamy rhythm stirred the stillness of the hall...