Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...most remarkable paragraph in English literature is perhaps that passage in which Spencer describes the rhythm of motion. Motion is unrest; it is undulation. In everything there is a pulsatory motion and however true this would appear of the world, it is also true of heavenly life. The law of motion is the law of intermittent life, there are many who do not follow this, thus avoiding the motion al law of life...
...same given last year, has had many additions made to it, and is far superior in every way to the former production. The ballet dance especially deserves praise. Messrs. T. Hoppin, Sevens and F. Hoppin kept splendidly together, and were very graceful, the orchestral accompaniment lending an additional rhythm to the dance. The Turkish ceremony at the end of the fourth act was also one of the features of the performance...
...last number, and the great task of the orchestra, was Beethoven's seventh Symphony, which is popularly considered nearly, if not quite, the equal of the famous fifth. The symphony in all its motives is essentially a dance rhythm. It contains many beautiful passages for solo instruments, notably that for second horn in the next to the last movement and one for clarionet near the beginning. The orchestra did not seem in their best form in this last number; several careless mistakes marred the rendering of the programme from a critical standpoint, but these came in minor details so that...
...verse of the number is unusually good. "Dance Music" is one of Mr. Moody's most ambitious efforts and certainly one of the best of his which has appeared in the Monthly. The metre in which it is written is a happy selection, the swing and rhythm suggesting the graceful evolutions and music of the ball-room. One or two slight errors of rhyme are noticeable, but they are pardonable in consideration of the wealth of poetic diction, delicacy of description, and aptness of similes which characterize the whole poem. "Tomorrow" is a meritorious epigram...
...musical notes are to the nervous system comparatively unwonted experiences, and they are almost pure pleasures; finally, the textures of sound of which music consists force themselves upon the attention during considerable periods of time together; and moreover usually involve the strongly exciting characteristics of an exact and marked rhythm...