Word: vocally
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...VOCAL TRAINING - Students who expect to take courses in class with S. S. Curry, Instructor in elocution; or who wish to make appointments for individual instruction given free to all students are requested to attend the opening lesson on Tuesday, Oct. 6, at 9 a.m., in Holden Chapel, or to call there from 10-12:30 and 1:30-5 on that day. Hours will be assigned in the order of application...
Among the suggestions which enter into musical expressiveness the position of first importance must be given to those of movement, of the force involved therein and even sometimes of the form which it describes. Especially are suggestions of human movement bodily, vocal or spiritual, a powerful element in musical expression. According to this view of its origin, the main characteristics of the poetic effect of music are its intensity and its vagueness. While music has no definite poetic meaning whatever, it has an infinite poetic content...
...theme. The compass of these larger periodicities in composition exhibits a great degree of uniformity, two, four, eight or sixteen bars being their commonest duration. This structure of beats bars and phrases or (larger) periods is commonly explained extra-musically by the bodily conditions of musical and especially vocal, performance...
...same instrument will all embody its interval order, and it is to this fact that we may attribute the entire subjection of the art of music to generic interval, orders or scales. But in the forms they have taken we may perhaps find evidence of an independent tendency in vocal music to exhibit scale-structure...
...conceive that such vocal scales have been modified by the conditions of independent instrumental performance and by mechanical considerations of instrumental construction and use we have means of explaining most of the various varieties of scale at present known. The scale of seven steps, tones and semitones, to the octave, known since classic times as the Diatonic, has been the basis of nearly all European music...