Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...harp. Toward the end the whole orchestra works up to a climax and then softens and ends with a pianissimo passage. In the third movement there are some very difficult parts for the flute. The fourth is quiet in the first theme and ends in a burst of sound from the whole orchestra...
...life and works. Mr. Van Dyke describes the poet as he reads "Maud" and shows us how singularly beautiful and strange this reading was. He says, "It was not melodious or flexible, it was something better. It was musical, as the voice of the ocean, or as the sound of the wind in the pine-trees, is musical. There is given a short criticism of Tennyson's work. There are three points on which the poet's message to men is clearest, the relation of man to woman, the relation of man to his country, and the relation...
...Scherzo from Midsummer-Night's Dream is bright and lively, and full of surprises. The violins have a very intricate series of passages which require the greatest unity of sound for good effect. The Notturno is, of course, a decided contrast to the Scherzo. It contains many quiet melodies, some of them very suggestive of church music. The movement ends with a sustained high note on the violins and a quiet accompaniment by the rest of the orchestra, the whole sound fading away till it is lost...
With the reign of Elizabeth there came a time of sound government when men had leisure to look around them. England was then taking an active part in the affairs of the world. The reformation was bringing before men's minds new and glorious thoughts of freedom. Above all, America was being explored and settled. It was a new country. People felt that antiquity had not exhausted everything, but that here were new fields for investigation opened to them. It was a time of great and general animation such as was very favorable to poetry...
These are the reasons advanced by the Woman's Education Association for the union of the Annex and the University and they are certainly sound and important. It would be difficult to state just how such a union would be viewed by undergraduates. Undergraduate views, however, upon this subject would doubtless not be of much influence. The idea of a co-educational college like those of the West, probably comes first to mind, but such a change in the college would probably not happen. The system of the education of both departments would be left to the Administrative Boards...