Word: counterpoint
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Shields says The Independent sought to bring its readers a more diverse range of perspectives. One of the paper's regular features was a section titled "Counterpoint," which always included three different opinions on a given issue...
Albee is exorcising his own demons in having the dowager deny her homosexual son. Strikingly, he keeps the son mute and gives the mother her uninterrupted say. The counterpoint between his deathbed devotion and her strident evocation of a showdown years before could feel contrived. Like all of this chamber masterpiece, it is nuanced and heartbreaking...
...shared an in-your- face aesthetic that guaranteed zero radio play. At his best, however, Zappa fused two seemingly irreconcilable 20th century musical strains; his masterpiece, Absolutely Free (1967), is a dazzling merger of Stravinsky and Varese with rock and rhythm and blues. Who else would have thought to counterpoint the Berceuse from Stravinsky's Firebird with the doo-wop of Duke of Earl on a song called The Duke of Prunes? To quote The Rite of Spring and Petrouchka as a prelude to some of the hardest-charging, straight-ahead rock of the era? To use Varese's musique...
...Dissident," the guitar blends so well with the lyrics that at some points they practically sing them along with Eddie, while at others, they serve as a counterpoint...
...despite the Sub Pop name on the label (though recording at AmRep Studios in Minneapolis must have helped to put an electric edge on the guitar sound, an edge that's developed only since last year). Rebecca Gates' playing has to carry the instrumental melody, the chords and the counterpoint for each song. The Spinanes date back only to 1991, but (both live and on Manos) Gates sounds like a practiced expert at this kind of multiple-tune/one-instrument balancing act. Scott Plouf works similarly subtle tricks with a fairly big set of drums; some neat tracks (including a ridiculously...