Word: counterpointing
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With that for a start, most bestselling historicals would be off on a snappy story of boudoir doings in the First Empire, with a lusty cannon counterpoint to the mattress melody. In Desiree, however, Danish Novelist Annemarie Selinko has accepted the rational notion that historical novels must have some relation to historical fact. The historical facts in the case are these: that Napoleon (he later Gallicized his Corsican name) as a very young man was actually engaged to Desiree Clary, the daughter of a Marseille silk merchant, that he broke the engagement to marry Josephine, and that Desiree later married...
...Robert Shaw Chorale conducted by Robert Shaw; RCA Victor Orchestra; Victor). The best recording to date, but for some reason one of the world's most beautiful scores continues to defy recording techniques: too often the chorus overpowers the orchestra when it should float over it, clouds the counterpoint when it should limn...
...counterpoint, the Times's homegrown Russian experts wrote that Russia has not abated her "Hate America" cam paign one jot. The net effect, however, was to give Stalin's answers a sense of importance far beyond their value...
Willy Burkhard: Toccata, Op. 86 (collegium Musicum, Zurich, conducted by Paul Sacher; London). One of Switzerland's leading composers turns in a score that combines imagination with some down-to-earth counterpoint. Strings predominate, but winds and percussion give striking punctuation...
...composer himself was not inclined to say much about his new work. "A contrapuntal work entirely," he said. "Counterpoint is my real home. I feel quite at ease...