Word: basse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sultan of Turkey, played by Ezio Flagello, while hardly lecherous enough, flaunted his despotism and fat sufficently to be piquant. Ezio Flagello looks like a mean old sultan, and sings a professional bass...
Lackluster tone and a consistent tendency to flat notes plagued the Princetonians in every one of their pieces, from the Hassler Cantate Doming to Black-eyed Susie. Their bass section was so weak as to be superfluous, and even the "Hey" in one of their football songs was fairly pallid. The first half of their selections slogged along rather dully during a medley of Three German Romantic Choruses by Schubert, Schumann, and Weber, respectively. The horn accompaniment, though an improvement over many a brass ensemble, still cast a submarine gloom over three already drab and awkward numbers...
...very low bass--tones in the 20 to 50 cps (cycles-per-second) region--gives body, depth, and majesty to music. Such tones are produced by the biggest organ pipes and bass drums, for instance...
...ability to produce sounds without distortion. A system which is completely faithful to the frequencies and relative intensities of the sounds played through it is nevertheless unbearable to listen to if it produces any appreciable distortion. On the oher hand, a system on which violins sound like flutes and bass drums disappear entirely, but which is entirely free from intermodulation distortion, will be very listenable...
Harmonic distortion is the doubling of frequency by an amplifier or other component which cannot handle low bass. It does not irritate the ear so much as it bothers one's musical sense. When instruments start taking on new characteristics, harmonic distortion is at work...