Word: vocally
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...structural characteristic first to be noticed in them is that the changes of pitch they exhibit are not contiguous but discrete: a musical composition consists of a mass of different notes, the closest together of which in pitch are still distinctly separate. In the vocal production of tone this character of discontinuity is the result of a constraint exercised upon the organs of voice; in the case of most instruments of music nothing else is possible. The hypothesis that the suggestion for an art of discontinuous pitch came from the notes of sounding bodies is a theory of the instrumental...
...concert was given in the evening at the Odeon and was the best that we had given so far, but the musical critic of one of the Cincinnati papers seemed astonished that "a school of the national prestige of Harvard can send out one club with vocal attributes, a second armed with that implement of torturous significance and African identification, the banjo, and a third supplied with the Spaniard's favorite vehicle for the conveyance of the message of love, the mandolin and guitar...
...Arthur Nikisch will be the vocal soloist at the next Symphony Concert in Sanders Theatre...
This evening Professor J. J. Hayes will read "A Mid-summer Night's Dream," at Chichering ball, Boston, instead of New York, as previously announced. The entertainment will further consist of instrumental and vocal music...