Word: ferruccio
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...some years since Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni, Italian master-pianist and modernist, startled the musical intelligenzia by advocating an entirely new musical scale. It was to be composed of quarter-tones, the pitch of each two adjacent tones being only half of what it is on a piano. It was then already noted that music played on a quarter-tone piano would only sound "out of tune"-and that this would be no novelty at all. Quarter-tone effects, it was added, were achieved by every Hawaiian guitar-player when he executed that lugubrious wailing slide along his seductively twanging strings...
...April 10, to 6 o'clock on Wednesday, April 12. The subject of the competition this year will be something pertaining to Italian Renaissance gardens. The prize will be awarded by Professor J. S. Pray '95 and Professor H. V. Hubbard '97 of the Architectural School, and by Mr. Ferruccio Vitale, a landscape architect of New York. A first, second, and third prize will be awarded...
...jury which made the selections and which will make the final award soon after May 29, when the competition ends, consists of the following: Professor J. S. Pray '95, of the University, chairman; Professor Bryant Fleming, of Cornell; Mr. Ferruccio Vitale, of New York; Mr. Breck Trowbridge, of New York; Mr. George W. Breck, of New York; Mr. James E. Fraser, of New York.4...