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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...
A like hypothesis would throw light upon the remarkable distinction in emotional character between the two forms of consonant chord, the Major and the Minor Triad. The former presents, through its fundamental tones, and their difference tones an approximately complete musical note; the Minor on the other hand gives fragments...
The programme for the concert this evening is of a purely classical character and yet the styles of the composers represented are sufficiently varied. The first number will be Beethoven's dramatic overture to Egmont. Mr. Carl Faelten will play Schumann's familiar pianoforte concerto in A minor. The concert...
"The City Directory" will be presented in a revised form at the Tremont Theatre next week. It will remain there for two weeks. The additions are said to be "encyclopaedic in their character and universal in their scope, with a main tendency, however, to fun."
One of the most valuable workers for the museum is Miss Alice C. Fletcher. She has been devoting herself to the study and improvement of the Indian race in America. Her long visits to the to the Omaha, Ponca, Winnebago, Sioux and Nez Perce Iddians have given Miss Fletcher a...