Word: fluting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...translators. For many years Cambridge Professor Edward J. Dent; one of England's most eminent critics and musical biographers, has brooded over the problem of translating operatic texts into sensible, singable English. Published recently were his translations of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute and Beethoven's Fidelio. Where a hitherto much-used 1850 translation of Don Giovanni reads...
...Helmholtz was unable to explain what made the simplest wheels of a musical composition go round. But ever since his time rubber-gloved scientists have been trying to get music and musicians into test tubes and under microscopes. Today's No. 1 and 2 musical microbe hunters are flute-playing, Einstein-disputing Professor Dayton C. Miller of Cleveland's Case School of Applied Science, and Iowa State University's dapper, white-haired Dean Emeritus Carl Emil Seashore. While Physicist Miller has succeeded in taking up where the doughty von Helmholtz left off, Psychologist Seashore has spent...
Emperor Nero is supposed to have been a bang-up organist and bagpiper. England's Henry VIII composed chamber music and religious choruses. Germany's Frederick the Great was a flute player. Most musical of present-day royal figures is Denmark's tall, genial Crown Prince Frederik...
...Voice, Fiddle and Flute, No longer be mute...
...confused orchestration of Manhattan art galleries last week two flute parts and a vigorously bowed violin made lyric music...