Word: aural
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their minds. White Rabbit ("One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small") is an eerie echo of Lewis Carroll's Alice, that mop-haired, pioneering freak-out and her oldtimey, mind-blowing Wonderland. The Airplane likes to blur and disconnect its musical phrases, creating the aural equivalent of double vision...
...combining the aural approach in the first semester with an emphasis on reading and writing in the second, Robert H. Spaethling, associate professor of German, who is planning the new program, hopes to "capitalize on the strength of both the present courses...
...French Composer Pierre Boulez, who is himself pretty handy with a modulator, says flatly that "Stockhausen is the greatest living composer, and the only one whom I recognize as my peer." Stockhausen tends to agree. Aggressively indifferent to criticism, he is interested only in exploring every corner of the aural landscape. He has completely done away with traditional music forms, conceives his works instead in terms of "moments" or time lapses that are carefully structured but follow no conventional rhythmic pattern...
GUMMIDGE: That's the aural-oral method. Say it aloud...
...that instrument-he juggled the music for the entire string section to correct it. "Few composers," says he, "know much about the technicalities of copying," and he can lecture for hours on the proper method of indicating the duration of a glissando. "Arnie," says Composer Ned Rorem, "has an aural...