Word: counterpoint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...less consistently developed, this time in England. John Dunstable, much of whose work has recently come to light, had acquired a European reputation for his songs. For some reason difficult to understand, he was, however, very soon forgotten and became an almost legendary character sometimes called the "inventor" of counterpoint, and, most curious of all, even identified once or twice as St. Duston...
True it is, nevertheless, that Dunstable, if he did not actually originate contrapuntal composition, still developed it greatly, and English counterpoint affecting the Netherlands made possible the work of Okenhelm and Josquin Des Pres, the first great composer...
...skilled performer in any of the arts but literature must have a training whose technique sets him apart from ordinary men: His education in the handling of paints and brushes, chisels and marble, counterpoint and chords, columns and domes, is a thing for the rest of the world to admire but not to share. But the man of letters has no such monopoly of his art. He has merely pursued it further than the laboring man who knows how to order a meal in English. The language is common property. The man who develops his manner of using...
...Habaña filth was the predominant motif, with yellow fever the counterpoint, U. S. health officials scoured the city clean, but yellow fever persisted epidemically. Dr. Walter Reed came with his staff from Washington to investigate. On the hunch of an old Cuban physician, he experimented with mosquitoes, heretofore unsuspected and felt fairly assured that they were the carriers of the dread malady. But he needed proof and he found it when, after months of experiments, a virulent mosquito bit and infected one of the doctors on his staff. Another intrepid physician submitted himself to experimentation, was infected, died...
From the very opening when the sopranoes impose their superb planissimo upon the undertone of the bass viols, through the great organ chords of the fifth chorus and the magnificent climaxes of the sixth to the stately Maestroso of the final chorus which dies away in the beautiful counterpoint between the sopranos and tenors, Brahms shows himself as one of the very greatest of molodic composers...