Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...efforts to maintain the liberal arts tradition, Harvard, along the certain other universities, notably the University of California, has not followed this trend. In a system in which music is retained as one of the liberal arts, the approach to it as an art form deserving of scholarly research in theory and history is stressed over the more practical aspects. This has always been especially true at Harvard, where the department holds in its combined library facilities one of the fines music research collections in the country...
...trend towards the general education has been evident in recent years. There has been a consistent effort to increase the number of courses of interest to non-concentrators, such as Music 128, "Elizabethan Madrigals and Songs." In addition, there has been a departure from the traditional nucleus of basic theory courses for concentrators to allow a wider selection of courses for a major in the History and Literature of Music...
...This trend clashes with the continuing need for the basic musical theory courses which form the basis of concentration: Harmony, Counterpoint, and Orchestration. The number of concentrators in the department--65 at both Harvard and Radcliffe--is considerably smaller than that in the Fine Arts and the Literatures, and would therefore imply that relatively few students major in Music in order to get a broad liberal education...
...past four or five years the trend in Pudding musicals has been away from the traditional skit to the integrated musical comedy," bacon pointed out. "Therefore, it has seemed to make sense to produce this type of musical in as realistic and entertaining a fashion as possible. And this would include the use of girls," he added...
...echo in Philip Evergood's Quick Lunch, a ham-handed working man swigging a soft drink; Morris Graves's Bird is deftly caught on thin rice paper with a Chinese economy of line. But they are small islands of representation in a swirl of abstraction. Emphasizing the trend is Brooklyn Museum's only U.S. purchase. Two Points of Interest by Brooklyn Artist Edmond Casarella, 34, is a scrawled composition of broken space which slowly unjangles to reveal forms suggesting an apartment house, shades half drawn, laundry on the line, and a peek into a bedroom with...