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Both the scherzo, which is the offspring of the minuet, and the variation form can be traced back to the very origin of instrumental forms in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The combination of popular dances-minuets, sarabandes, allemandes,--represents the first attempt to write instrumental pieces involving more than one section, the germ of all later large forms...
Fiene embodies some of the controlled but outspoken realism of the elder Breughel, sixteenth century Flemish master. In Breughel's work, we see the underlying and basic connection of man with nature. His men and women are integral parts of the landscape; humanity is just as deeply rooted in the earth as a massive rock or a tree. Fiene speaks much in the same manner. His men are on a par with the countryside which they inhabit. But his is a new kind of landscape, one bristling with cranes and pulleys, a valley of machines whose wheels seem...
With Les Pitchford of the mound, the 1942 baseball warriors continued their winning ways against Milton Academy, scoring a decisive 8 to 4 triumph yesterday afternoon on the schoolboy diamond. It was the sixteenth win of the current campaign...
...mentor of English 21 on sixteenth century literature has given several of the most popular courses in the English Department during his long career here. At one time his course on Romantic and Victorian Poets was one of the most heavily enrolled course in the Department...
...unofficial National Gallery by virtue of location, Washington's sedate Corcoran swam into the news last week. Rejected by Corcoran's jury for its sixteenth biennial show of U. S. oil paintings was The Eternal City, famed satire on Roman Fascism by conscientious Artist Peter Blume (TIME, Jan. 3, 1938). When supporters of Artist Blume snorted "politics!", supporters of the Corcoran sniffed "publicity...