Word: aural
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beatle humor is visual and aural. We laugh when we see them gaily fleeing an army of girls, or when we hear them tossing insults at one another. But their spontaneous charm does not survive the transition from phonograph and movie screen to printed page. In His Own Write needs the sight and sound of John and his three friends. Without them the book book is dull. Sometimes even grotty
...playing the Shostakovich, Fournier never missed. Up high, his nearly faultless harmonics combined with the violins and bells to produce one of the delightful, but inconsequential, aural tricks in which the concerto abounded. His extended cadenza in the third movement lacked raw strength, but it was exquisite. Why he or conductor Henry Swoboda put their talents and the HRO's into this concerto is hard to understand...
Charles Ives: Washington's Birthday and Three Outdoor Scenes (William Strickland conducting the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Imperial Philharmonic of Tokyo; Composers Recordings). The four previously unrecorded pieces by Ives run from a delightfully winterstruck evocation of all outdoors to the musical equivalent of pop art-an aural collage of clipped folk tunes and imitative sounds. On the other side, the music of Composer William Flanagan gives a chaste and lovely setting to an early poem that Edward Albee now likes to forget he ever wrote...
German A was criticized, for example, because it does not give a "coherent presentation of grammar." The report says that "the aural-oral method should be used side-by-side" with a more suitable and rigorous text than the current grammar employed by the course...
...evidence of the success of the German A aural-oral approach, Spaethling cited the results of proficiency tests given to first-year students last week. In the standard college-board achievement test designed for students with at least two years of German, 60 per cent of German A passed with a score of 560 or above. In a similar Harvard College proficiency test, 45 per cent passed the exam...