Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Rand spoke specifically on the three great works of Virgil: the "Eclogues", "Georgics", and the "Aeneld". Of the Georgics he said , "Here the author's great art in the arrangement of matter and sense of climax is most evident. His phrases and lines flow on with an undulating rhythm, with occasional bursts into epic which do not, in spite of the decided change, break the continuity of the plot...
...real impetus from American jazz, and I am firm in my belief that jazz will constitute the basis of the future schools of American and European music. Jazz has many redeeming features, for in it there is a certain warmth, an enthusiasm, a disonant quality, a vitality of rhythm, which is not foreign to the newer musical tendencies of Paris. My hope and my reasonable expectation is that some young American composer will produce a jazz symphony, in other words, jazz in sonata form. If America does not develop this musical concept, I will do so myself...
...welcome occasion. The violins are to be commended for a smooth, clear tone, inclusive and clearcut where need be, broad and following at other times. These qualities they displayed to good advantage in the second and third movements of the Fantastic Symphony of Berlioz; in the graceful rhythm of the Ball and the pastoral idyll of the Meadows. In the latter movement the wood-wind choir did especially good work. But these are the only movements of the Symphony wherein Berlioz displays full poetic instinct. The work as a whole is married by that garish morbid-ness too frequent...
...tiny "cones" on the retina to the brain has not previously been known. Professor Chaffee and Professor Bovie discovered that all impulses passing along the optic nerve are rhythmical, that they go in a series of extremely rapid pulsation's or separate impulses, and that the nature of this rhythm varies with the color of the light seen...
White light, for instance, when flashed from the frog's eye, causes impulses to pass along the optic nerve to the galvanometer in groups, while blue light causes regularly recurring impulses. As the investigators alter the color of the light cast upon the frog's eye, the rhythm of the impulses varies accordingly. Incidentally, it has been noted that the frog is practically red blind; the frog's eye transmits only very faint impulses from red light...