Word: musically
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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 musical, while her dashing style of execution carried the audience with her from beginning to end. The cencerto itself was interesting, but not remarkably so. The use of the various instruments did not seem so graceful nor so skillful as is often the case in music of this composer...
...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...
...auditory sense be formulated as follows: In the case of any sequence of sound which has begun to recur the ear forms the anticipation of the further elements at the same intervals at which they originally followed one another. The application of this principle to bars of music would lead to their combination into periods according to the powers of the number...
...charm which these complete units of musical texture called periods or phrases may possess, is one of the most remarkable facts of music. Analogies from other departments of art suggest that their unity itself may be a secret of their beauty; a melody or a complete harmonic sequence impresses us as a growth from a germ of musical form...
...next lecture we shall close our discussion of musical structure by considering some of the main facts of the simultaneous combination of notes in works of music...