Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remarkable for three reasons; its infrequency of performance, its historical importance, and its enjoyable music. The concert consisted entirely of sacred music of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries. Music of this early period has several unfamiliar features which makes it difficult to grasp at first hearing. Landini cadences (familiar to all Music 1 students) appear frequently and contrast with the more modern dominant-tonic resolution. And the rather empty open fifth chords are a welcome relief after the lush harmonies of more recent composers...
...background with other sports is concerned, Bolles said, "I played a little football in high school where I was a very poor second string guard." Pressed about the extent to which he was familiar with other departments for which he would be responsible, he answered, "I'm a pretty competent horseshoe player...
...Korea, the Chinese Reds are using Manchuria in the same way. In Korea, Van Fleet is picking up where he left off in Greece-fighting other, much more numerous enemy contingents in the same global conflict. The enemy face is now Mongolian instead of Mediterranean-but it is familiar...
Says Van Dusen: "Let us be clear what is required. Not an uncritical return to ancient days and old ways. Not the slavish reproduction in this modern time of many familiar features of earlier philosophy and social organization. Not the rejection or loss of a single sound achievement of recent centuries...
...spring of 1947, London Drama Critic James Agate found himself in a familiar condition: up to his neck in work, up to his ears in debt. The British revenue office sent him a "curt communication saying that unless I find ?940 within a week everything in my flat except the bed I lie on will be taken away...