Word: chanting
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Worse, there are clear signs that Iraq's malice has an echo in other parts of the Middle East, exacerbating existing tensions between Sunnis and Shi'ites and reanimating long-dormant ones. In Lebanon, some Hizballah supporters seeking to topple the government in Beirut chant the name of radical Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose militia is blamed for thousands of Sunni deaths. In Sunni Arab countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Egypt, sympathy for Sunnis in Iraq is spiked with the fear, notably in official circles, of a Shi'ite tide rising across the Middle East, instigated and underwritten...
...easy 86-71 victory. As the lead grew, the New Haven crowd only grew more vicious, and Goffredo, the team leader struggling through one of the toughest games of his career, took the brunt of the insults. Shooting free throws in the second half, Goffredo received a chant of “worst game ever...
...halftime was turned into a laugher down the stretch, prompting the entire Yale football team, clad in white home jerseys and standing throughout the game in the rabid “Dawg Pound” student section, to start a “just like football” chant...
...individuals have the ability to produce up to three notes simultaneously, is incredibly rare and thought to be a sign of extremely high spiritual advancement—a feeling which was palpable in the auditorium. As the monks adjusted their cone-shaped hats and large tassels before beginning to chant, an announcer encouraged audience members to meditate if they wished...
When you first hear them, a Gregorian chant, a Debussy prelude and a John Coltrane improvisation might seem to have almost nothing in common--except that they all include chord progressions and something you could plausibly call a melody. But music theorists have long known that there's something else that ties these disparate musical forms together. The composers of these and virtually every other style of Western music over the past millennium tend to draw from a tiny fraction of the set of all possible chords. And their chord progressions tend to be efficient, changing as few notes...