Word: chromaticisms
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As an organ is to a piano, so is a carillon to an ordinary set of bells. Numbering at least 24 (covering two octaves), the bells of a carillon are tuned with the sharps & flats of the chromatic scale, are struck by hammers like piano keys. A chime or peal...
For the last two years a young Greek-American has been astounding Europe with his proficiency on the flute. People looking at his trim beard and heavy, horn-rimmed glasses can hardly believe that Lambros Demetrios Callimahos is only 26. People hearing him pipe harmonics and flying chromatic scales think...
Through it all. friends say, Mrs. Coolidge has longed to return to the friendly Pittsfield atmosphere. There was no other explanation for having the festival there last week instead of in Washington. Outsiders understand that each new work earned $500 for its composer. There were four new U. S. offerings...
More interesting to musicians than Arnold Dolmetsch's reconstruction of old-time instruments is his research into early music. When he gave his first concert 45 years ago the oldest composition Antiquarian Dolmetsch played dated from the 17th Century. Believing that the past could offer more pungent novelties he studied...
Dear Sir: . . . My organist insists upon dragging his fingers over four or five keys, like an upward run, at least twice in each hymn stanza. He will not play the harmony as is, but manufactures harmonies of his own, with many fancy chromatic chords. His harmony is always thin, and...