Word: counterpoints
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...early as 1905. He always traveled as far as he could from the railroads, and sought out the oldest shepherds and peasants he could find. When their banshee-like wails could not be transcribed into the conventional musical scale, Bartók adopted five-and twelve-tone scales. His counterpoint was as orderly and frugal as his life, but in concert halls it came out dissonant...
...Witness François Boix, French, remembered a special ceremony at Mauthausen concentration camp at which a prisoner was hanged while a gypsy orchestra, in mocking counterpoint to death, fiddled through the Beer Barrel Polka and J'attendrai...
...suites (Firebird, Petrouchka, Sacre du Printemps), Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky had been the No. 1 bad boy of music. He founded a school of cacophony which resulted in atonalism, and then, like his friend Picasso in art, left his school behind. He went on to a preoccupation with 18th-Century counterpoint, and shocked his fellow revolutionaries by having a good word for a romantic composer like Tchaikovsky. In his new symphony, Stravinsky carries his musical vagabonding a step further-blending a kind of Tchaikovskian and Brahmsian romanticism with jazzy rhythms. The Carnegie Hall audience gave it a polite hearing, and several...
Last week Schuman planned his first reform: the addition of courses like sociology and race-relations to Juilliard's harmony and counterpoint curriculum. This, he hopes, will "make responsible adults of musicians." He explained: "Right now, when we need musical leaders in every community, we are concerned only with training virtuosi for a nonexistent market. Musical education has to be ventilated. We must develop educated people who are musicians in order to develop music...
...that pleases him-as though the subdued hum of the household behind the closed door, the murmur of the capital beyond the curtained windows, and further away still the vast chatter of the continents all blended together for him into a sort of music in whose warm and complex counterpoint he found comfort and a sense of ultimate harmony...