Word: counterpoint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...command of both musical history and literature. For example, the Palestrina choral style which is known as that of the post-Trent period is entirely free from "incredible complexity". Dr. Pratt's statement that Gershwin shows possibilities of approaching such masters as Brahms and Mozart in choral effects and counterpoint is astonishing. Aside from the fact that the best choral works of Mozart and Brahms are of a serious nature, a careful analysis of the works reveals no similarity in either their construction or the final effects produced...
Dreamer and Poet that the Vagabond is, he has always turned to music for refreshment. In the little understood mysteries of fugue and counterpoint he finds a world where his emotions are free to practice every caprice. Music can turn him about and twist his spirit into a thousand different forms. The proud, moving music of the medieval church carries him closer to the cathedral tradition, to the mysterious power of priest and Virgin, than anything else he knows. Far as the Universal Church may be removed from the intellectual scepticism and the emotional sterility of Cambridge, nevertheless, the Vagabond...