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Once again the question of the purpose of secondary public schools comes to the fore with the recent statement of Dr. Payson Smith, state commissioner of education, that modern subjects are more essential than "sixteenth century subjects" because they "represent the needs of a modern child in a modern world." Going further, he declared that music, art, manual training, vocational and physical education should be stressed; and that English grammar and composition are far more important than Latin, Greek, or any of the modern languages. Apparently Dr. Smith is speaking in rebuttal of the recent attacks on the "frills...
...revised edition of the second volume of the Oxford History of Music covers the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries of musical history in Europe, beginning with the formation of schools in England, France, and the Gallo-Belgic Provinces. With the limits of the subject set up as described, it follows that the bulk of the work is concerned with choral forms of music. Instrumental music during the Middle Ages was confined to single instruments such as organs, spinnets, lutes, and flageolets, of which the various masters had their individual styles and communicated them to the pupils. These influences checked the production...
...student of musical history, and even more for the chorus leader, this period forms an unceasingly rich source of that stream of musical composition which flowed from the royal chapels of Europe. Up until the mid-sixteenth century the development was a national one. The spread of printing, the tendency of composers to look to the horizontal aspect of their music as well as the vertical one, and the perfection of the art of diatonic composition have a unifying effect on the choral music performed after that time. Mr. Wooldridge devotes generous portions of his book to a discussion...
While Paraguayan soldiers captured one-sixteenth of a mile of Bolivian trenches last week, Bolivian "atrocity stories" began to appear in which Paraguayans fired on Red Cross units...
...Fogg Art Museum will be the scene of a concert by the Bach Cantata Club this evening, with G. W. Woodworth '24 as conductor. The program offers selections from five composers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and includes Giovanni Gabrielli, Heinrich Schutz, and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina...