Word: counterpointed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reception-empty bottles, broken glasses, cigarette butts-and finally settling on the most pathetic: the father (Spencer Tracy) of the bride (Actress Taylor). Tracy, slumped in an armchair, massages a stockinged foot and begins to recount the events leading up to the disaster. Then, with his wry comments as counterpoint on the soundtrack, the movie takes up the account in flashback...
Besides Music 51, required courses are Orchestration, either Modal or Tonal Counterpoint, Advanced Harmony, Analysis of Musical Form and Introduction to the Historical Study of Music...
...asked of them. If plain song gets a little boring to an untrained ear, it nevertheless events a truly pious mood, and Paul Tibbetts, Robert Beekwith, and Robert Gartside joined with Conductor Woodworth and the chorus in a polished presentation. From 17th century plain chant to 20th century linear counterpoint, the Glee Club and Choral Society showed what a fine musical organization...
...Counterpoint. In Cleveland, Mrs. Agnes Graso, suing for divorce, charged that her husband caused her to become deaf by beating her, then broke her hearing aid when she refused to listen to his conversation...