Word: disc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed for the extravagant manner of his burial, is known to every bright U. S. schoolchild. More vital is the significance of Ikhnaton for he was the first recorded monotheist. In a regal frenzy he repudiated Ammon. deity of wealth and power, consecrated himself solely to Aton. the blinding disc of the sun. His was a short-lived but intense faith. Among its effects was the temporary liberation of Egyptian art from its stilted conventions. The bust of Nefertiti, for example, has naturalistically painted eyes, apparently follows the Queen's true tints and contours...
Sound tracks such as now border motion picture films, are imposed on a revolving glass disc. A series of shutters, connected with a keyboard, covers the maze of tracks. When a key is depressed its shutter opens, allows a beam of light to pass through the disc, shine on a photoelectric cell. The light is transformed into an electric impulse, the impulse into sound. Working on this purely electrical principle the fineness of tone division becomes limited only by the ability of the human ear to perceive...
Although this is only a new application of an old idea it opens startling new music fields. By changing the glass disc the instrument may be made to emulate any known string or wind instrument. Thus, it is possible to foresee a symphony orchestra made up of a hundred Hardy & Brown devices keyed to simulate violins, piccolo-flutes, oboes. French horns...
...disc on the M. I. T. instrument was keyed to a three-octave board, reproduced deep pipe organ notes. Unlike Leon Sergeievitch Theremin's "ether music" box (TIME, Sept. 30), Hardy & Brown's development does not slide from one note to another, slurring the intervening ones...
Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra (Victor, $8)-A particularly relevant recording of the ballet music recently given its first U. S. stage production (TIME, April 28). Stokowski's disc version preserves much of the naked intensity of the original, reveals ais complete mastery of the crazy, conflicting rhythms...