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...first piece was Cherubini's severe and tragical overture, Anacreon, which gave the stringed instruments a particularly good chance to display their purity of tone and their finished style of playing. Although Cherubini wrote this overture many years ago, he uses the trombones and other instruments in quite modern style, and introduces several grand climaxes. The second piece was a concerto for piano in C minor, by St. Saens. Mrs. Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler played the solo part in a very brilliant manner, overcoming with little effort the technical difficulties of the work. Her tone and touch were sympathetic and thoroughly...
...texture of notes making up a modern European musical composition is emphasized at successive intervals in general equal, the attack of the separate notes marking out either these moments of intensification or divisions or subdivisions of them, dual or triple. This period of intensification is called a bar, its dual or triple division the beat of the music. Other characteristics in the flow of sound composing a piece of music result in a larger periodic structure; these may be, apart from actual interruptions of continuity, the tendency of musical movement to repeat itself, or to delay upon a long held...
...other of the notes A C D E F or G (modes in B being unused) the place of tonic note. In the Harmonic style which at the Reformation succeeded Polyphony the modes of E F and G fell out of use. The mode of C became the modern major scale; and those in A and D united to form the modern minor. In this process of development the diatonic scale itself become modified for reasons which will be referred to in the lecture on Harmony...
Topics No. 6, under Ancient and Oriental Languages, and Nos. 6 and 16 under Modern Literature have been withdrawn...
...development in modern music of a third structural characteristic, that of Tonality, has led to modifications in this interval-order to which reference will be made in the next lecture...