Word: chordings
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Tito struck a popular chord among neutralist Asians in denouncing colonialism, by preaching independence and urging non-alignment...
...then there are the non-nonconformists who wouldn't be caught dead with their beards down or their big toes showing, and who occasionally take a perverse pleasure in astounding their nonconformist neighbors by defending Dulles or admitting that Marilyn Monroe might strike a chord of response after all. This super avant-garde attitude will soon be superseded by an equally avant-garde reaction of non-non-nonconformism, and so forth...
...Prophet Jeremiah)-come from three of the familiar elegies from the Catholic Vulgate Bible. Written in the tone-row technique that Stravinsky once scorned but has lately adopted, the work has a spare, transparent orchestral accompaniment that for long stretches consists of no more than an occasional chord. To prepare the Hamburg Radio Chorus for the taxing job of staying on pitch while unaccompanied, Conductor Robert Craft rehearsed the group more than 20 times...
...chord" piano whose keys are numbered (for the melody) as well as aligned with lights above the keyboard (for the chords). Special scores, without musical notation, consist merely of numbers and colored dots; the player presses the keys in accordance with the dots and numbers, and the result is music, at least theoretically. Anybody, the company claims, can play at once after a single reading of the instruction book. Price...
...play the guitar. Just turn the dial and strum. No fingering necessary . . . You can go on TV with your own guitar and your own entertainment." This invitation to the arts is part of an advertisement for the Dial-A-Chord, a $12 gadget that enables a fledgling guitarist to change chords at the flick of a plastic wheel and presumably to toss off a habanera at first strumming. Music merchants on their way home last week from their annual convention in Chicago went armed with dozens of such labor-saving and interest-killing devices designed to hook some...