Word: hybridization
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Bela Bartok published only six string quartets, but as far as many a musician is concerned, they gave the intimate and delicate world of chamber music its rudest shock since Beethoven. With his First Quartet, composed in 1908 when he was 27, Bartok stalked into a field of harsh, hybrid harmonies and fierce rhythms that jolted Budapest listeners upright in their seats. In the Second (1917), Third (1927) and Fourth (1928), he cultivated the field; his harmonies became more astringent, the rhythms more incisive, the textures ever tighter. Listeners found much that was either impenetrable or unpalatable, but they also...
...early 20s, Henry Agard Wallace was an Iowa Republican, a member of his grandfather's Calvinistic church, and mostly occupied in experimenting with hybrid corn...
...watched while it turned into the Progressive Party, a hybrid organization of Reds, malcontents and fuzzies which was soon dominated by the Reds. Most of Wallace's liberal following deserted him, but he accommodated himself to his new friends. He babbled, "The Communists are the closest thing to the early Christian martyrs," talked of leading Gideon's army, was hailed by the Communists as a candidate for President, spouted their lines. Just about everything Russian was good. Just about everything American needed fixing...
This week, deserted by even the Reds, pitied by a few, Henry Wallace was back on his South Salem farm, experimenting with hybrid chicks and strawberries...
...another chorus to the celebrated [Gertrude] Stein song, and say that a Rose is a Waugh is a Wilde; which is a harrowing enough hybrid for anyone...