Word: counterpoint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many as 1,000 musicians). Folk tunes, military marches and café ditties jostle each other in the symphonies-sometimes with deliberately sarcastic effect-against rich, romantic textures and harsher lines that range out boldly to the limits of traditional tonality. Mahler plunges the listener from surging eddies of counterpoint into brooding, tragic depths, or lifts him with sudden paroxysms of melody into the heights of metaphysical yearning...
...always, as a kind of counterpoint, there were the attacks on the Roosevelts. One of the gentler assaults, which Author Bendiner wisely reprints, is a priceless parody of Eleanor's "My Day" column by Westbrook Pegler...
...rest of the sonata sounded equally refined; Street and Kalam negotiated the complex counterpoint and rhythms of the fast movements with complete confidence. Unfortunately, Street was consistently slightly overbalanced by the piano. His playing never became at all fiery, while Kalam's did on occasion. In every other respect, however, the performers' coordination was perfect--quite an achievement considering the dynamic and rhythmic liberties they took with the sonata...
...paper clipped to a board. It was French Composer Olivier Messiaen, 58, elder statesman of the far-out realm of 20th century music, gathering new themes for his compositions. "Birds are the greatest musicians," he insists. "You will never find in their song a mistake of rhythm, melody or counterpoint...
Manchester sets up an intricate counterpoint between his story of the stricken individuals in Dallas and what he calls "the Greek chorus" of fear and mourning that quickly gripped the world in general. A stunned Associated Press operator, attempting to transmit the bulletin that Kennedy was shot, clattered the keys with a "tragic stutter" that resulted in O'DONNELL be coming "o";>9...30)," and BLOODSTAINED became "BLOOD STAAINEZAACRBMTHING," and HE LAY became a wailing "HA LAAAAAAAAAAAAA...