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To get the contours of Brazil on music paper, Villa-Lobos invented a "millimetric musical chart"-a graph on which he placed, in vertical columns on the left side, the diatonic, chromatic and other scales, with one note for each horizontal line. Villa-Lobos got photographs of Brazil's...
Harpsichord Recital" (Ralph Kirkpatrick; Musicraft: 12 sides). U. S. Harpsichordist Kirkpatrick, an authority on 17th and 18th Century composers, plays a representative anthology, including Bach's Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, two Scarlatti sonatas, two Purcell suites.
Words & Music. Good taste and an unquenchably romantic point of view are the common denominators of most of the 1,000 songs Rodgers & Hart have written together. Larry Hart did not originate sophisticated lyrics. William Schwenk Gilbert was 48 years and many a smart jingle ahead of him. Richard Rodgers...
Last week a new flood of scientific ideas and gadgets descended upon the musical world. Gadget No. 1 was the chromatic stroboscope. Conceived by Indiana University's Professor Ora L. Railsback and developed by Physicist Robert William Young and Engineers Allen Loomis and O. Hugo Schuck. it was demonstrated...
Red-Shift Explained? Once enthusiastically propagated, the idea of a universe whose outer nebulae were rushing away from Earth in all directions has lately lost favor among astronomers. Evidence for the recession of the nebulae is that, when their light is broken up into a spectrum, certain lines are shifted...