Thirty feet! How many do you know? [exercise]
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Part of The Young Citizen: The Magazine for Young People
- Title
- Thirty feet! How many do you know? [exercise]
- Language
- English
- Year
- 1941
- Subject
- Questions and answers.
- Rights
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- Abstract
- Exercises on naming animals.
- Fulltext
- THE YOUNG CIT IZEN NOVEMBl!R, 1941 the form of a musical prelude. It is a very fascinating piece of music with an exotic, languorous atmosphere that no other composer has achieved. W e may consider this composer as the most poetic and original of pr.esent music writers, with striking cantatas and symphonic poems. H e also wrote a few operas, besides smaller works. Such modern composers as T schaikowsky (see THE YOUNG CITIZEN for July, 1941) and Debussy have literally created tonal coloring of the symphony orchestra o~ which Haydn, M ozart, and Beethov~n did not dream. The melodies of W agner and Debussy are more exciting than the simpler patterns of H aydn, M ozart, and Schubert. •But it is worth remembering that each kind of music was thoroughly satisfying to the public in its day. · There is realism as well as beauty in other orchestral works of Debussy such as T he S ea, and two nocturnes called Clouds and F etes which have been played in Manila 'by the M anila Symphony Orchestra. In the program notes of the concert given on September 9, 1941 by the Manila Symphony Orchestra, a critic has this to say regarding Debussy's composition Clouds_ (Nuages) : " In this lovely impressionistic fragment, Debussy dop not attempt to point a picture of clouds moving through the sea of ·heaven, but , rather to evoke such a mood. as might come upon one who gazes upon the slow and solemn passage of the clouds dissolving into a grey vagueness tinged with white." And of the composition F etes, these notes are printed: "F etes is an unforgetable example of the quality in music that accomplishes meaning and suggestions quite beyond word!. T he music seems to come from th~ shadowy distance. Swiftly dancing figures, whirling in complete abandon, crowd and jostle on the scene, lost in the joy of sensuous movement. Swiftly they disappear, and the scene fades.n In his piano music of a se(ious nature Debussy includes many picturesque titles,' such as T he G irl with the F laxen H air, Goldfish, Ga1 ·de11s in the R ain, T he Subm erged Cathedral, Moonlight, R eflections in the W ater., E vening ·in Granada) etc. It is Debussy who has given real individuality t o French piano music, and his novel effects of tonal coloring, suggesiing gray, cloudlike backgrounds and blurred . outlines, represent something unique in music, thus far defying imitation by any other composer. H e is priinaril'y a composer of program music, and most of his pieces h~ve descriptive titles such as those given above. - Debussy uses many dissonances in his compositions, but his music is now accepted as well written, and his original genius is unquestioned. In some' compbsitions he uses the whole-tone scale. T he modern whole-tone scale, as its name im(Pleau tur n' to page 408.) THIRTY FEET! HOW MANY DO YOU KNOW? How MANY of the animal's feet s[lown in the picture on the next page can you name? T ry first, then check with the following list. In the first row from left to right they are: horse, elephant, eagle, newt, ostrich, camel ; second row: chimpanzee, tiger, duck, shrew, lizard, beetle; third row : sloth, bear, locust, flamingo, platypus, cra'b; fourth row : peccary, spider, giraffe, frog, arn\adillo, ox; fifth row: kangaroo, tortoise, squirrel, iguana, mouse, gecko. NOVEMBER, 1941 THE YOUNG CITIZEN ELEMENTARY SCIENCE SECTION THIRTY FEET! HOW MANY DO YOU KNOW?