Word: idiom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood studies with a thirty-one piece band. In addition to the usual six brass, four sax, four rhythm, and Shaw, they added eight violins, three violas, two cellos, flute, oboe, bass clarinet and French horn. Victor says, "Despite the full combination, Shaw will remain (sie ! ! !) in the swing idiom. With the extra musicians, he plans to enhance his style with tone colors and effects, heretofore unattained...
Strong for verisimilitude, Joanne interviewed the local judge to learn how judges talk, the local grocer to learn the idiom of grocers. By autumn of 1939 she had put all the pieces of paper together, laboriously typed out (by hunt and peck) their 15,000 words...
...search of early U. S. music. No. 1 U. S. Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick hit upon James Hewitt's The Battle of Trenton. Last week, on a broadcast of U. S. music over WNYC, Harpsichordist Kirkpatrick played it. Though written for the most part in the measured, tinkling idiom of 18th-Century English salon music, The Battle of Trenton still preserved a smoldering crash and rumble reminiscent of the early works of Ludwig van Beethoven. Modern listeners found James Hewitt's ideas as quaint as a periwig, but agreed that his music was well worth unearthing...
...assembled a band that has great swing soloists--topnotchers all--but more important, when they play ensemble work, it is music of a kind that is played nowhere else in this country. Many critics believe it to be a cross between contemporary classical works and the pure swing idiom...
...stimulated by foreign recognition of their musical possibilities, Spaniards, began to apply themselves with greater success to serious composition. By combining characteristics of their national folk song with a basic European idiom the modern Spanish school has developed a brilliant style full of highly decorated melodies and dancelike rhythms. . . Selections from Iberia by Albeniz are the only familiar pieces from the modern group, which includes works by Rodriguo, and Rodolpho and Ernesto Halffter...