Word: counterpointing
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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...
...course, the number of performers ruled out any possibility for delicate treatment in choral passages. The Mass can be as effective in mightiness as in subtlety, however, if the chorus is well enough trained to execute cleanly the variations in volume derived from the counterpoint itself. The Glee Club and Choral Society were. After the some-what uninspired reading of the Kyrie, in which lone syllables appeared and vanished with no apparent intention, the Chorus climbed to heights of accuracy and cooperation in the Gloria. The "Qui Tollis" was an achievement which is impossible to describe, and the transition without...