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Girolamo Fantini and Giovanni Viviani were two minor seventeenth-century composers whose works blend into the amorphous mass of early Italian baroque music. The musical content of three of their sonatas was so slender that all attention was drawn to the majestic sound of the trumpet. Baroque trumpet is a far different instrument from its contemporary counterpart. A narrow bore gives it a piercing sound, and pitch production is based on the natural overtone series, produced solely by lip inflection without the aid of keys. The result is a melodic scale available only in the third octave above fundamental pitch...
...outsider in his own right (he is the first Harvard President since the seventeenth century not to graduate from the College), Bok was younger by 15 years but still a respected scholar. He is fresh to the mainstream of Harvard politics and infighting, but he brings with him an awareness of the different constituencies to which a President must respond...
...superb in Dirty Hands. ) The worm of incest causes not only the ruin of two families and the death of both sister and brother, but also a few assorted stabbings, poisonings and eye-gougings which Ford probably threw in for his sensation-seeking upper-class audiences-though, then again, seventeenth-century. Englishmen assumed Italians were that...
...what am I going to say? Well, I could mention the futility of words. That's always a winner in CRIMSON closed reports. Or I could talk about how Harvard should either time-travel back to the seventeenth century or adjust to the newer ones. Or I could talk about my amazement at discovering that Harvard buildings are often littered with hand-scrawled signs bearing institutional messages instead of neatly printed ones. Or about the pure hate I have felt on occasion for University administrators-like on April 10, 1969. Or about the cold fear I feel when I realize...
...often, students are encouraged to read poetry as a puzzling form of prose to be elucidated by sweet exposition. Cataloguing the various senses of a character in Shakespeare can kill in glibness the possibility of understanding of his vision. Teach the Bible, but not because it is seventeenth-century English literature...