Word: counterpoint
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Hindemith's Das Unaufhörliche (The Unending) scoffed at the "mines, oil wells, rubber plantations, graves of the mythless white race." Though conservatives complain about his shocking dissonances, Hindemith has always shown a strong sense of form. He can handle counterpoint as well as any man alive. The German Republic, which liked moderns, gave him a medieval tower to live in. The Hochschule in Berlin made him professor of composition. When the Nazis removed Hindemith and tabooed his works because his wife is Jewish, Wilhelm Furtwangler temporarily resigned his posts with the Reich Chamber of Music, the Berlin...
...more eccentric their variations. Shields would take a phrase, play all around it on his clarinet. La Rocca would pick it up for a few "licks," pass it on to Eddie Edwards' trombone. Henry Ragas' piano set the tempo. Tony Sbarbaro's drums rattled a furious counterpoint. Other New Orleans bands had similar technique but none developed it so highly as the Dixieland, whose members rehearsed so often together that each player could almost mind-read the others' musical intentions. In 1916 they were offered $125 a week to play in a Chicago cafe...
...Holly wood. Mamoulian liked working with Negroes, had a steadfast admiration for the primitive tragedy of Charleston's Catfish Row. This time, though, his problem was harder. His actors had to be singers, trained to time themselves to the subtlest beat. To match the Gershwin counter point, Mamoulian planned counterpoint in movement which would have the effect of a dramatic ballet. Porgy was to start one song simply, with: "I got a plenty o' nuthin' and nuthin's plenty for me." As the tempo mounted and the crowd joined in, chairs were to rock faster, one old black woman...
...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...