Word: fluting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will be four Irish musicians, Geraldine Dunne, Paul Grant, Thomas Keane and Martin Murray, in a celebration of Irish ballads and poetry. The songwriter will perform traditional folk tunes as well as more modern ones with the company, who will play instruments ranging from fiddle and mandolin to the flute, harp and pipe...
...Ages, what lay beyond the city wall had been fairly odious; its image was not Arcadia but Dante's dark wood, a labyrinth of fear and self-loss, full of bears, wolves and demons. The conditions of medieval labor did not, to put it mildly, foster belief in happy flute-playing rustics. The rediscovery of Vergil and Theocritus changed that. First in poetry and then in painting, the glimmering, closed Theocritean landscape where gods and shepherds pursue nymphs and shepherdesses amid the boskage was reconstructed. You know, looking at Dosso Dossi's The Three Ages of Man, about...
...elegiac classical past. The figures in Matisse's fauve landscapes at St.-Tropez -- amply represented in this show -- are Arcadians with spots. The pale recumbent nude among the columnar tree trunks in his Nymph in the Forest, 1935-42 or '43, harks directly back to Titian. The flute player in Henri Rousseau's The Happy Quartet, 1902, whose music is joined by the howling of a giant white poodle, is a reprise of innumerable earlier pastorals. Gauguin was partly a reprise of Watteau, each in his own way imagining fugitive pleasure on a distant island, Cythera equaling Tahiti...
Another Math Department bystander darted into his office and returned a few seconds later with a large, awkward wooden object which says was a Renaissance-period ancestor of the flute. After demonstrating how to play the instrument, he passed it around among his friends, some of whom acknowledged that they were already familiar with a modern-day woodwind...
Professor of Mathematics Mark W. McConnell, who sings and plays the flute, offered a historical approach to the question. Math and music, he says, share a common history which dates back to ancient Greece. Pythagoras, famous for his theorum on triangles, is also considered to be a pioneer in music theory...