Word: counterpoint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...constant stream of songs, piano pieces and small instrumental numbers?parlor music in tune with the times which brought him increasing royalties. An able pianist, he got out of his depth when he tried to compose a piano concerto. Melody was easy but Nevin never managed to master counterpoint or orchestration. To his father, on whom he drew freely for his studies and trips, he wrote: "You would be proud if your son were to make a name and fame for himself thro' the gift he inherited? not of his own doings, but a God given talent." Nevin wrote...
...three months all the players have acquired the glossy Noble technique. At rehearsals the Briton works patiently and courteously. With a few "hot" exceptions, he has made the arrangements himself. And they are all smoothly polished, all rich in counterpoint, most of them sweet, none sissy. Many of his introductions are almost symphonic. Yet Noble never forgets that he plays for dancing and his rhythm never flags. Even "Goodnight, Sweetheart" is a sturdy swinging tune when Ray Noble plays...
...rattling good story, yielding precedence to no other war novel in its swift vividness of narrative and its sureness of character analysis. The action occupies less than three days in the collective life of a french regiment of the line and in the individual lives, presented in a counterpoint pattern, of a number of the members of the regiment, from privates to the division commander. The division commander lusts for a star of a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, so he orders the exhausted regiment, after only a few hors of its promised ten day leave, back...
...This is just a kinetic visual art with time continuity. It takes advantage of the possibilities in the cinema of an abstract art that develops in time before the eyes as sound develops before the ears-rhythm, the development of themes in counterpoint, a variety of intensities and volumes...
...brown and green hold up white cotton stalks. King Mumbra is now a house servant. The White Mistress tells the story of Moses in Egypt. A rifle sounds. The lights flash back to the cotton field. The chorus sings "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen'' against a mounting counterpoint of cannon roar. "John Brown's Body" alternates with "Dixie." A clash of cymbals brings sudden silence. A Negro Abraham Lincoln reads excerpts from the Emancipation Proclamation. From the cotton fields the crouching figures straighten up to sing ''Rise, Shine, Give God the Glory...