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Stravinsky's Petrouchka comes from a period in the composer's career during which he stressed Russian themes and styles in his music. This ballet suite uses the orchestra in some unique ways: Stravinsky occasionally makes the orchestra a vehicle for visual as well as aural effects: when the whole orchestra makes a tremolo, the players seem to shake together...
...made a film which can be called entirely cinematic. With the added dimension of color, Antonioni has been able to do away with plot, characterization, and even music, elements which have detracted from the cinema for fifty years. Instead, the director concentrates on the purely visual, on the purely aural, and on the relationship between people and their environment, all proper pursuits of film...
Plastic Surgery. Lip sync is symptomatic of a profound change that has gripped the recording industry. With each new advance in technology, the sound of recorded music-revved up reverberated, splintered, stirred, spliced, multiplied, filtered, equalized-passes further into a kind of aural twilight zone. For every hour that a classical or pop artist spends recording music today, technicians devote an average of four hours to doctoring it. The result, though few listeners realize it, is that the age of machine music is already here, and for better or worse it is reshaping the world of music making...
...teaching techniques which Stein stresses in the course and for which the German Department at Harvard is famous are aural-oral. Stein counsels his future college teachers to develop in their students the ability for automatic response and communications--the same kind a child develops learning his native language. He opposes this to the old-fashioned grammar-and-translation approach. In fact, a "Do's and Don'ts" sheet which Stein distributes to his teaching fellows concludes with a warning: "There is a departmental ban on the use of the words 'memorize' and 'translate,' and a total...
...Romance Languages Department with Dwight LeM. Bolinger, professor of Romance Languages and Literature, as coordinator of language instruction has begun to follow, in the last two years, in the German Department's footsteps. Since the Romance Languages Department has not been as enthusiastic in the transition to oral-aural-methods as the German Department, experts think is will take about three more years before the former's teacher-training program begins to produce as well. But the two departments are now working together--Stein and Bolinger, as co-ordinators are co-operating on further developments in the training program...