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Telharmonium console by Thaddeus Cahill 1897. The Telharmonium (also known as the Dynamophone [1]) was an early electrical organ, developed by Thaddeus Cahill c. 1896 and patented in 1897. [2] [3] [4] The electrical signal from the Telharmonium was transmitted over wires; it was heard on the receiving end by means of "horn" speakers. [5]
Cahill had tremendous ambitions for his invention; he wanted telharmonium music to be broadcast into hotels, restaurants, theaters, and even houses via the telephone line. [3] At a starting weight of 7 tons (and up to 200 tons) and a price tag of $200,000 (approx. $5,514,000 today), only three telharmoniums were ever built, and Cahill's vision ...
The curse of the ninth superstition originated in the late-Romantic period of classical music. [1]According to Arnold Schoenberg, the superstition began with Gustav Mahler, who, after writing his Eighth Symphony, wrote Das Lied von der Erde, which, while structurally a symphony, was able to be disguised as a song cycle, each movement being a setting of a poem for soloist and orchestra. [2]
However, a man of mature age may also prosper in terms of his material wealth and friends, and achieve happiness. The poet explains that the distribution of man's fortunes and misfortunes is in God's hands, including that of one's skills and talents: martial dexterity (throwing and shooting), cunning at board-games, scholarly wisdom and the ...
Gerontion" is a poem by T. S. Eliot that was first published in 1920 in Ara Vos Prec (his volume of collected poems published in London) and Poems (an almost identical collection published simultaneously in New York). [1] The title is Greek for "little old man," and the poem is an interior monologue relating the opinions and impressions of an ...
Cynewulf (/ ˈ k ɪ n i w ʊ l f /, Old English: [ˈkynewuɫf]; also spelled Cynwulf or Kynewulf) [1] [2] is one of twelve Old English poets known by name, and one of four whose work is known to survive today. [3] He presumably flourished in the 9th century, with possible dates extending into the late 8th and early 10th centuries.
[1] A moth ate words. To me that seemed a fantastical event, when I found that wonder out, that a worm swallowed the poem of a some person, a thief in darkness, a glorious statement and its strong foundation. The thieving stranger was not a whit more wise that he swallowed those words.
Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet.. He has published more than thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize.. At Princeton University he has been both the Howard G. B. Clark '21 University Professor in the Humanities and Founding Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts.