Word: songe
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...they had fully entered into the spirit of the evening. It is a little unfortunate that they placed their most difficult piece first on the programme, for they were not in the spirit for it and sang it much less effectively than their later pieces. To be sure the song "The Rhain and the Moselle" by Ethelbert Nevin is a long and difficult composition with frequent and sudden changes in key that the club met with skill and good taste. The solo of "The Dragon" was well sung by S. E. Farwell, the accompaniment of the club being very even...
...Miller's Song Taylor...
...people, said he, have been so low in social conditions that they have not felt the need of some expression of the peculiar temper of their age. Even in the midst of the British invasions upon England, the harp and song accompanied and perpetuated the deeds of these rough warriors. There is no question that there existed before the arrival of the Romans a distinct Celtic literature which gained its peculiar character from the domination of the Druids...
...Glees: (a) Miller's Song...
...Black then gave a short sketch of the old Norsemen, their habits and character, and their religion. He showed how they brought with them their old songs and legends, and how they influenced the native legends in Britain. Only three of these legends have safely passed the destructive hands of the monks, namely. "The Gleeman's Song." "The Fight at Frimsburg," and "Beowulf," and they are the beginning of Anglo-Saxon poetry. 'The Fight at Frimsburg' is short but alive with the fire of war, and the description of battles. Beowulf, however, is a long and thrilling tale, and told...