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Instead of the scientifically compacted music which Gambara described, his fingers produced sequences of fifths, sevenths, and octaves, of major thirds, progressions of fourths with no supporting bass, a medley of discordant sounds struck out haphazard in such a way as to be excruciating to the least sensitive ear. It is difficult to give any idea of the grotesque performance.
Mr. Gerry thought that three fifths of them was, to say the least, the full proportion that could be admitted. Mr. Gorham. This ratio was fixed by Congress as a rule of taxation. Then, it was urged, by the delegates representing the States having slaves, that the blacks were still more inferior to freemen.
Of the officers and men of the army, two fifths, and of the effective force of the army nearly three fourths, were on the sick-list. There was no longer any thing to hope for or to wait on. The night that followed the exploit of the Arkansas saw Farragut's fleet descending the river and once more running the gauntlet of the batteries of Vicksburg.
They return three times a day until their children are eight months old in the middle of the forenoon, at noon, and in the middle of the afternoon; till the twelfth month but twice a day, missing at noon; during the twelfth month at noon only...The amount of work done by a suckler is about three fifths of that done by a full hand, a little increased toward the last...Pregnant women at five months are put in the sucklers' gang.
And it is this element which has complicated city living to a great extent, and to which attention has been drawn by the accusation that home life is shirked by it. To the bachelor man and maid are added the commercial traveller who leaves wife and possibly child behind four fifths of the time.
The most familiar of these consisted in trying to teach the pupil to sing intervals, as intervals, at sight. Thirds, fifths, sixths, &c. were diligently practised. But pupils did not always find it easy to sing these intervals from all notes of the scale, unless in sequence. The major third from doh to me seemed easier than that from fah to lah, and so on.
Fluid, flexible, vivid, these beautiful harmonies, seemingly woven of refracted rays of light, merge into shadowy melody, and free, flowing rhythm. What we first hear in Debussy's music, is the strangeness of the harmony, the use of certain scales, not so much new as unfamiliar. Also the employment of sequences of fifths or seconds.
Quickly she replied, "Ache," with an involuntary movement of her hand toward her beautiful forehead. "Good," exclaimed Kennedy. "You seem to grasp the idea better than most of my patients." I had recorded the answer, he the time, and we found out, I recall afterward, that the time averaged something like two and two- fifths seconds. I thought her reply to the second word, "green," was curious.
Four fifths of the students here are devoted to their studies, improve their time to the utmost, and never engage in, or even see, a duel. "These combats which they are, rather than duels take place at the Hirschgasse, a lonely hotel on the other side of the Neckar.
I asked my sisters about Beethoven, and learned that the news of his death had just arrived. Obsessed as I still was by the terrible grief caused by Weber's death, this fresh loss, due to the decease of this great master of melody, who had only just entered my life, filled me with strange anguish, a feeling nearly akin to my childish dread of the ghostly fifths on the violin.
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