Word: counterpoint
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...treats it psychologically, and not as the Greek did, auto-logically. He looks into the conditions of human knowing, and reaches the conclusion that reason is all-important. In music we find Beethoven and his followers getting at the divine part of music. By carrying music up to double counterpoint, they have made it a most effective vehicle for the portrayal of human feelings...
...very characteristic, and brings out some peculiar feature of the orchestra. In the first movement is a tuba solo, in the third, a flute solo, variation of a theme, also a variation with whole stringed orchestra pizzicatto and the last movement, the "Perpetum Mobile," is a fine piece of counterpoint...
...specifically American instrument. The success of the Yale Club may be regarded as a partial indication of the possible success of such a club in Harvard. Unless indeed we may flatter ourselves that the state of musical taste and criticism at Harvard has risen above the intricacies of banjo counterpoint. We would not discourage anyone from forming a Banjo Club, although it might be wise not to incorporate the new interpreter of sweet strains with the venerable Pierian Sodality, that boasts an age of almost a century...
...music, the troubadours, the opera oratorio, etc., of the 17th century, and lastly the rise of modern instrumental music. Harmony was unknown in the earliest music; scales and notation were introduced, but the first experiment of harmony was made in the 9th century. Not till several centuries after did counterpoint come into use; it arose from the Gregorian chant. The old Flemish school received an illustration by a gloomy chorus of Josquin de Pres, the contrapuntal church style by a selection from a mass by Palestrina. Next came the popular and secular music especially of the troubadours and minnesingers...
...such good usage behind it, although unprecedented in any American college; and at about the beginning of President Eliot's regime, we find that this was done. In the catalogue for 1870 is given for the first time, a list of electives under Professor Paine in music, including "harmony." "counterpoint," and the "simple forms of composition...