University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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The Gothic architecture of the Law Quad mirrors the serious- ness of academia at the Uni- versity of Michigan. S. McCut some lacking of pleasure though: al- ready the student self-critic has no- ticed an absence of something, some unreproducible energy, that elicits a sense of loss. THIRD MOVEMENT: RONDO DISCONCERTO From the first strain, this segment leaps from melody to melody in a cycle: museful wandering, complex decision, fitful resolve, and then back to museful wandering again. This repeats several times for the ju- nior, a building tension with each. This is the most serious movement of the sonata, the tempo is tense and plodding. One feels that there is a great constructiveness here: careful structures of complex strains are built upon one another, foundations stretch far into other student ' s melo- dies. Institutional scales and foresha- dowings of formal plans appear, and a new freedom is heard, but not without new fear. By the closing of the segment, the entire style of the piece has become barely recogniz- able from the first bare melody with which the sonata began. FOURTH MOVEMENT: APATHIO O REQUIEM This is a slow march. The tone is pure bass, deep and resonating to the very bone. This movement must be described by the senior as DULCE, or sweet; but it is far too short and tense to allow the listener to fully enjoy its pleasures. It must (con ' t) 6 K Prologue

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