Word: aural
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indonesia album is an aural education in itself. There is a Javanese war dance-written on the seven-tone pelok octave and played on bronze percussion instruments-which has the simple gravity of a Bach sarabande. A Sundanese love lament called Drizzling Rain, accompanied on a zither, carries its grief through a long series of delicate ornamentations. An ancient song of the Batak hill people, accompanied by a wooden xylophone and split cymbal, is strikingly like the melancholy music of Provencal shepherds...
...backed away 20 feet, started speaking in a low conversational tone, walked toward them, asked them to indicate when they could hear what he was saying. Does this test-which the Army, the Navy and the Veterans Administration still use-prove anything? No, says Dr. Aram Glorig, director of aural rehabilitation at the Army Medical Center in Washington...
...official appreciation the band receives. The HAA recognizes its existence, if not its worth, by providing not quite enough money for one trip each season. What the HAA does not recognize is that, along with the unquestionable additions it makes to the color of a football game, both aural and visual, the band adds hard cash to the gate receipts. Although this point cannot be proven, it also cannot be contested very violently in the face of the fact that the Princeton and Yale Athletic Associations, neither of which can back a band with the reputation or box-office appeal...
Growing out of wartime research in sound sponsored by the Army and Navy, the project was originally part of a nation-wide program to assist in the rehabilitation of aural casualties...
Though plans for research in the physiological and psychological divisions are as yet indefinite because of the readjustment and lack of critical personnel, the Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory is looking forward to intensive basic research in aural rehabilitation for deafness in war causalities of which there are 40,000. "The ultimate aim of this work is to find out how the car works," Professor Stevens remarked and added that a great deal was still unknown in this field of research...