Word: tone
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Goethe's drama of the same name, is one of the most dramatic and passionate of all the classical overtures. We have so long been accustomed to hear the heavy strokes of the strings in the first part played with a disagreeable rasping quality that the clear and noble tone attained by the orchestra was particularly delightful. The next piece was Schumann's concerto, for piano in A minor, played by Mr. Carl Faelton. This concerto, composed just fifty years ago, is incomparably finer than any concerto that has been composed since. It was last played in Cambridge in January...
Interval is a characteristic quality which distinguishes the sound of all pairs of tones, the ratio of whose vibration numbers is the same. This quality is in most cases disagreeable, the few agreeable or consonant intervals having vibration ratios which can be expressed by the first five integers. Helmholtz has sought to explain this remarkable fact by the use of the same principle of the disagreeableness of the strong and rapid pulsations of sound formed by very near tones, which in his theory of Timbre accounts for the aesthetic superiority of notes with a few integral overtones to all others...
...overtones that therein attend the fundamental pitch. The physical cause of the composite nature of the notes of most instruments is the tendency of elastic bodies to vibrate in a way capable of analysis into a number of manners of vibration having different rates. In some sources of tone the quicker of these vibrations are always an integral number of times as fast as the slowest, (which is also generally the strongest). In others the quicker rates are in general fractional multiples of the slowest. To the latter class belong instruments like bells and drums giving less perfect notes...
...Sanders Theatre, as in a larger hall her voice might sound forced and thin. Later in the evening Miss Franklin sang an air by Herold, with a violin obbligato played by Mr. Kneisel. This air was more florid than the other. and it was sung with remarkable purity of tone and with considerable dramatic feeling...
...seventh number of the Advocate must be considered one of the best that has appeared this year. "One of the Unfit" is of exceptional merit. It gives proof of a power of analysis possessed by few and of an ability to make details and accessories contribute to the general tone of the story which gives it, in spite of its melancholy, a strange charm. The story has many points of resemblance with the "Decadence of Arthur Helmer" by the same writer in one of the last year's Advocates. It is fully equal to it, if it is not better...