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mediaeval church composers required an extraordinary
To forget the principles underlying three centuries of harmonic practice and revert to the methods of the mediaeval church composers, required an extraordinary degree of imaginative intuition; purposely and consistently to employ those methods as a foundation upon which to erect an harmonic structure most richly and elastically contrived—to vitalize the antique modes with the accumulated product of modern divination and accomplishment—was little less than an inspiration.
— from Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score by Lawrence Gilman

Middlesex County Court records at East
The following entry, under date of June 20, 1682, is found in the Middlesex County Court records at East Cambridge, and shows at that time to re-establish the boundary lines of Nashobah:— Cap t Thomas Hinchman, L t .
— from The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 5, May, 1884 by Various


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