Word: disjunctively
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...working in, partly on account of his often-expressed desire to say something, to picture something, in a completely new, and preferably shocking, way. It is not so much that his metaphors and imagery slip out of focus, as Roy Campbell suggests, but they are sometimes strained and absurdly disjunct, unsequential and incoherent. Some of his worst lines, such...
Addiss' Thre Songs from James Joyce captured the moods of the text well indeed. The clearly phrased "Go Seek Her Out" came off best. In "From Dewy Dreams" the disjunct vocal line violated the verbal accents and bore no apparent relation to the slow piano chords until the last verse...
...Sarah Jane Smith. In them Webern applied his own refined pointillism to the atonal technique of Schonberg, with dubious success. I happen still to be old-fashioned enough to think that the human voice should not be asked to do everything an instrument can do. I find this disjunct kind of vocal writing, in which there are only angles instead of lines, highly ungrateful. The chief interest in these songs for me lies in rhythmic precision; and this in turn is best achieved by instruments, not the voice. The first and third songs seemed wholly unrewarding. I will admit that...