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...could name the monetary value of the Treasure Room's wide variety of books and papers, he remarked, adding that it contains "one of the most important collections of sixteenth and seventeenth century material in the United States...
Despite this questionable victory for the undergraduates, Harvard students are today as far from having any say in the administration of their college as they were in the seventeenth century, when they rioted against the practice of serving horse meat in Commons
...broader range than most serious programs. From Elizabethan England comes a church liturgy by Byrd, full of wonderful organ effects and harmonic coloring. The secular spirit of the same age finds expression in a Morley madrigal, which has the fresh lyrical flavor one associates with Shakespeare's songs. Conventional seventeenth-century numbers are the choruses from "Croesus" and "Prinz Jodelet," by Reinhardt Keiser, but they are energetic and tuneful--and for modern ears, unusual. Finishing off with the boisterous drunkards' chorus from Moussorgsky's "Kovantschina," and the sparkling finale of the "Gondoliers," the program leaves the listener, relaxed...
Pottinger's subject will be "Making the Bay Psalm Book," while Miller, whose "New England Mind in the Seventeenth Century" was published recently, will speak on "The Religious Background of the Bay Psalm Book...
...Purcell composed at a time when the mediaeval religious tradition of the Renaissance had disintegrated into a purely secular art. The English Restoration, especially, was accompanied by an important efflorescence of secular music. One can easily appreciate the role of the Puritan Revolution in creating the new spirit. The seventeenth century Puritan, with his austere morality and his mystic absorption in God, could neither enjoy music nor understand its function. To him music was a sensual pleasure, and as such was a barrier to the contemplation of eternal truths. It had no place in the Church service. In this situation...