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More conservative and immediately accessible are John Austin's Four Modal Canons. Scored for two violins and viola, they follow the old principle of the "round": one viola leads off and the others enter later playing exactly the same notes. The limitations are obvious; all variety must proceed from harmonies produced by the passage of voices and from little imitative figures as each enters. Austin's first canon produces lovely sonorities and a mood of serenity that help sustain its length. In the second, however, parts too closely spaced give the effect of tedious repetition. Although the others are better...
Love as Blackmail. Butler was born in 1835, two years before Queen Victoria was crowned. His father, Canon Thomas Butler, was himself a bishop's son-a man who took for granted that his own filial piety would be duplicated in his children. Samuel's mother was also typical of her class and times, i.e., everything a mother of the 19503 tries not to be. It was mother Butler's custom to treat little Sam to "sofa talks"-long, cozy, heart-to-heart, during which he was made to "feel guilty for not being sufficiently grateful...
...quickly learned to hold out against his mother. He had a good ear for unintentional humor, and when mother Butler urged him to have "his loins girt about with the breastplate of purity," she made herself ridiculous in his eyes. But the canon was much too tough to be soluble in comedy. Young Sam would have liked nothing better than to win him over and impress him, but he always failed. Sam disappointed his father by refusing to become a clergyman; the canon infuriated Sam by pestering him mercilessly about his future intentions. As Sam had no idea what these...
Experts at Hand. In Denver, State Institutions Director J. Price Briscoe admitted that Canon City prison inmates, who make jewelry and leather goods for sale in the prison store, were losing about 20% of their production to shoplifters...
ALFREDO CARDINAL OTTAVIANI, 63, a sturdy, placid expert in canon law, pro-Secretary of the Holy Office and one of the Vatican's leading reactionaries. He is an advocate of Vatican friendship with Franco...