Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...costumes and scenic effects, the Pi Eta production for 1916 is fully the equal of any undergraduate performance of its kind in recent years. Its music, moreover, is up to the usual high standard, particularly the overture and the music for the dances which displayed unusual qualities of rhythm and melody. But it may not be out of place to speak of certain defects in "The Lady Decides" which appear to be inherited from year to year and which may be found in practically all undergraduate performances of this nature. First, an inadequate orchestra: both the orchestration and the orchestral...
...good verse, better indeed than I remember to have seen in a single issue of any other American publication. The Sapphices of Mr. Cummings are very fine poetry: the thought is straightforward and clear, the wording is singularly euphonious--as in a Greek meter it should be--and the rhythm expresses, while restraining, mature emotion. Mr. Hillyer's second sonnet on Antinous is richly conceived and adequately expressed; the reading of it gives me intense pleasure, in particular the remarkable sestet with the "Imperial hosts upon disconsolate seas." "The Tree of Stars" and "A Renaissance Picture" by Mr. Poore...
...verse demands, and is not always happy or clear in its figures of speech, but deserves praise for its poetic quality. Mr. Howe's "Morning Song" fills two Sapphic stanzas, each of which has in the third verse one more syllable than the orthodox number. Mr. Howe follows the rhythm of the Latin Sapphic scanned rather than the rhythm of the Latin Sapphic merely read--the rhythm of Swinburne rather than of Cowper. Also he introduces rhyme. In substance the song is less interesting...
...Little While" has in its careful workmanship a great advantage over the unrhymed productions of Mr. B. P. Clark and Mr. Boyden. These gentlemen should realize that free verse is not an easy way out of the bondage of fixed metres, but requires an even finer ear for rhythm, and should compensate for the absence of regularity of account and rhyme by still subtler musical' effects. What they give us is rather vague prose, spoiled by inversions. Mr. Denison's "Sonnet" has a good tenth line spoiled by an unmetrical eleventh, and is somewhat over-weighted by the simile...
...genius of Euripides, with his keenness of understanding and his unrivalled realism in character drawing. It is due to the understanding and sincerity with which Granville Barker reproduces the Greek setting, with which Sir Gilbert Murray reproduces the Greek ideas, and Professor Smith, the Greek sense for rhythm and choral chanting in his music for the odes, that the modern audience can feel that they are receiving the same thrills which stirred Hellenistic listeners...