Western Hills High School - Annual Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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RIECKLBM AN Scmclc SCHIEL SCHWENKER Sci-HLLING SLUTZ THOMAS TODD HE CHARACTERIQTIC TRAIT of English Composition has been a solidity of musical structure and adherence to form. In the early develop- ment of music systems, the English were alone in working out their own contrapuntal and harmonic designs. While other composers were making many discoveries, the English musicians made no use of this knowledge until many years later. During the sixteenth century the English composers had written many instrumental works, songs, chants, madrigals, litanies, and church services. These were entirely independent of musical learning elsewhere. These compositions were quite advanced in thought and idea of expression for that period. Through the ages there has been in the English composition a quality of thoroughness in mode of expression. This quality some- times becomes what some call a dryness or lack of humor and color. Perhaps this has limited the scope of appreciation of English musicg but who can express this opinion about the music of Sir Edward Elgar? We, of Cincinnati, are learning more English music from Mr. Goossens, conductor of the Symphony Orchestra. -CHARLES F. STOKES. T634 lllihlllxlllllggrlllolllgllilll llllllllllgllllli

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lIE3ill.XlIl4lQr5.1-lIl9lllSllHIl AllR6lIFlllS6lllfS MCKINLBX' MBNDENHALL Moiuus Mouxc Nona O'N su. Pros os NGLAND MADE Two GREAT CONTRIBUTIONS to art during the eight- eenth century-a remarkable group of portrait painters and a modern school of landscape. - Reynolds, Gainsborough, Hoffner, Ramsay, Romney, Raeburn, Opie, and Lawrence painted their English contemporaries with grace and beauty, as well as with true delineation of character. Their por- traits show us the English aristocracy, men of dignity, women of beauty and distinction, and children' of charm and appeal. The modern school of realistic landscape was inaugurated by Gainsborough, Crome, and Constable. Previous to this time land- scapes had been very unreal and purely imaginative. The English painters were the first to cast off traditions and to venture upon set- ting up an easel in the field and painting what they actually saw. After the eighteenth century England continued to be an impor- tant factor in the art world, and has always maintained an essentially English character in both portraiture and landscape. -A. TAYLOR.

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llIiBllNllGL?fllblIlSllHll SllQ1DllRf'lllfS TURDY TWACHTMAN VoN SCHLICHTEN W A'rsoN ELLMAN Wxzvspaan Y ALBN 'ZELLBR 9,504 vmu' TYPE or ATHLETICS is founded upon a comparatively small number of fundamentals. Many of these have had their origin in the British Empire. However, the outward appearance of these games has greatly changed and has taken on an entirely different aspect during their migration to this country. English Rugby has been changed to American football. English cricket has been replaced by the great American pastime, baseball. Yet the fundamental principles of all successful athletics employed by the English and those before them, have come down to us unchanged. Sportsmanship, while generally adapted as a natural quality, is without a doubt the greatest essential of athletics and can well be classed as the finest contribution of the square-shooting English. It is to be hoped that we have learned from the English to lose grace- fully and to refuse unfair advantage. If we have not, it is not because they have not set us a good example. ' -A. C. MCCARTNE1'. V