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...years of Western music in general. How much shall he keep, and how shall he replace what he discards? If he decides to preserve tonality (which might be defined briefly as a system in which one tone, or a chord built on that tone, acts as a sort of aural home base) he has the advantage of manipulating the vocabulary of musical relations and tensions with which most of us are familiar since we have grown up in a world dominated by eighteenth and nineteenth-century tonality. Bartok's tonality is not Mozart's but it is tonality nevertheless...
...Cornell system, or teach French, German, etc. as dead languages. We have managed to avoid both these extremes. (Even Cornell has recently modified its method to make it less flagrantly anti-humanistic.) Nor does anyone in the Division of Modern Languages, to my knowledge, believe in disregarding the "aural-oral" aspects. A synthesis is possible. In German A, for example, while we put great stress on speaking and listening, we manage to get the students reading rather difficult prose within a few weeks...
...language. We need continuity in our teaching process, and somewhat the same setup as the scientific courses enjoy would be a good answer." Last year, for the first time, an elementary language course was allowed four hours a week--German A. This new course was quite popular and the "Aural-Oral" (Cornell) method of teaching is proving to be a success. "There is no guarantee that we'll stop at 4 hours a week," a section man said, "but in the event that we don't, we'd pare down the homework...
Marius Constant is a fast-rising 33-year-old Parisian composer with a peculiar aural defect: he can never listen to a single instrument without mentally hearing all the instruments of the orchestra. This gets so bad, he complains, that "even when I play the piano all by myself, I hear strings and trombones, trumpets and percussion.'' Not long ago Composer Constant also found himself hearing tom-toms, marimbas, vibraphone and celesta. He committed these exotic cerebral sounds to paper, and last week a Parisian audience jammed into the Theatre des Champs-Elysées to hear...
Also more rather than less in the aural tradition are two chapters from the novel Cadenza by Ralph Kusack. Each is an episode about childhood in Ireland full of color and suspense. There are times when Kusack's grammar gets the better of the reader, but at least the prose is rarely flat. Description procedes with abrupt transitions and gives an effect resembling the flicker in old movies, but the technique suits the generally continuous action and falters only in a few waiting scenes...