Word: songs
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...clubs and admission to this section will be by ticket only; the rest of the seats will be free and unreserved. Most of the music of all three organizations has never been played or sung by them in Cambridge before, and an entirely new feature will be the songs by the Glee Club accompanied by the Mandolin Club. All previous efforts to combine the clubs have been unsuccessful, but this combination has been tried at concerts lately and has proved very effective. The programme follows: 1. Glee Club. a. "Johnny Harvard." b. "Water Mill." 2. Mandolin Club. "La Susana," Spanish...
...rhetoric there, and two years after received the appointment to the chair of English literature, a position which he has lately given up, with the intention of devoting all his time to writing. Mr. Scollard's writings in verse include "With Reed and Lyre," "Old and New World Lyrics," "Songs of Sunrise Lands," "Pictures in Song," and "A Boy's Book of Rhyme...
During the course of the lecture Mr. J. M. Horner, a baritone soloist, sang the following of Schubert's songs: 1. "Solitude." 2. (a)"The Warrior's Forbodings," (b)"The Wanderer's Night Song." 3. (a) "The Young Nun," (b) "The Post...
...Osborne gave the second of his lectures on Modern Music last night, his special subject being "Schubert and the Song." The substance of the lecture was as follows...
...intrinsic beauty; second, "programme" music, supposed to represent or to imitate real life; and third, dramatic music, which is the accompaniment of poetry. Beethoven's music exemplified the first kind, but failed in the second, the "programme" music. It remained for Schubert to immortalize dramatic music in the song. His ability to set any verse to music was remarkable, and his general productiveness during the fifteen years that cover the period of his compositions is almost unexcelled...