Word: chords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Millions of moviegoers winced and smiled. The scene neatly captured their own late-'60s ambivalence toward the ever more synthetic landscape of their times. They loved their cheap, easy-to-clean Formica countertops, but envied--and longed for--the authentic touch and timelessness of marble and wood. The chord struck by that line in The Graduate underscored how much had happened in the six decades since the summer of 1907, when Leo Hendrik Baekeland made the laboratory breakthrough that would change the stuff our world is made...
...intermediate stage, musicians combine both the conscious and the unconscious, which includes reading notes and playing with scales and chord outlines...
Striking a Chord...
Various and complex tunings were used to achieve different tonal effects, and the move from the Renaissance style to the Baroque was distinctly audible over the course of the concert. It is this that is most interesting in the lute music: its ceaseless movement from one chord to the next, from one style to another. It is music never satisfied with itself, never stationary: It is dynamic and as intellectually satisfying as it is aesthetically pleasing...
...many law schoolers, prospective doctors and I-bankers does Harvard dispatch to the larger world every year? Enough. How many songwriters, singers, musicians and people pushed by chord colors into less chartered territories. You don't even know. But Wednesday night at Club Passim show-cased and marked out for future attention three out-standing singing and songwriting talents...