Word: counterpoint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Texas Shuffle (Count Basic; Decca). An excellent example of Basic's exciting counterpoint background...
Prim Music-mentor Boulanger writes no music herself. Teaching other musicians to write is her fulltime job. In her earlier years she taught the ABC's of composition, pushed adolescent hopefuls through courses in elementary harmony and counterpoint, the grammar and syntax of music. But nowadays she ir besieged by full-fledged composers who have outgrown their schoolbooks, need expert advice on polishing off finished compositions...
...radio audience-was New York's Governor Herbert Lehman. Considerably farther removed from the New Deal than he was before he objected to the President's plan to enlarge the Supreme Court last summer, Governor Lehman delivered a speech which, in the oratorical chorus, represented counterpoint rather than close harmony. Its strongest note: "A political party, like government itself, must be the servant of the people, not their master. It must be ... open-minded but not visionary, courageous but not impulsive, progressive but not impractical...
...interest. Most of the leading U. S. economists were there and No. 1 topic was naturally the current depression. Against the full blast of such Governmental brasses in Philadelphia as Assistant Attorney General Robert Jackson (see p, 12), the murmurings of the economists in Atlantic City formed a quiet counterpoint...
...what was formerly German Tanganyika. The Pygmies sing repetitious melodies in the manner of change-ringers, each one hooting his single note in turn. The Babira Negroes of the Ituri Forest punctuate the high-pitched gargling of their soloist with aggressive whoops. The Watusi Drummers hammer an intense counterpoint of rhythms more complicated than Gene Krupa's randiest rataplan...