Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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IGOR KIPNIS: ITALIAN BAROQUE MUSIC FOR HARPSICHORD (Epic). The son of the great Russian bass, Alexander Kipnis, Igor Kipnis is a passionate champion of the harpsichord: he adds to flawless technique a virile attack and a vital conviction that the literature of an obsolete instrument can still be exciting music. Here he plays oddments by Frescobaldi, Galuppi, Pasquini, Rossi and Cimarosa-who wrote when the harpsichord was the highest ornament of Renaissance sensibility. Most elegant of all is Scarlatti's Toccata in D Minor, the last movement of which consists of 29 florid variations on an old Italian theme...
BERNARD KRAINIS: CONCERTOS FOR RECORDERS (Mercury). The ancient instrument, beloved by Shakespeare and Pepys, now serves to introduce untold thousands of children and adults to the joys of producing music; so it is all the more dazzling to hear Krainis' virtuoso display as he whistles through concertos by Vivaldi, Telemann and Handel without a tripped note or an empty breath sucked in-like a lark with the lungs of a lion...
...musical structure and notation. The result is that thousands of students learn to read com plex scores as easily as a column of figures by the time they reach the eighth grade. Best of all, says Kodály, the children become skillful performers on "a beautiful musical instrument"-the hu man voice. He believes that singing not only provides "the best foundation of musicality" but also conditions the body and stimulates the brain...
...have greater exposure to accidents. Even so, members of the Flying Physicians Association, numbering 2,000 (about half the known U.S. and Canadian physician pilots), have an accident rate approximately the same as the average. We believe that our requirements of certification of higher aviation skills, such as basic instrument ability as a requirement for membership renewal, result in more responsible and safer flying...
...delicate an instrument is the human ear that at certain frequencies it can discern sound that moves the eardrum a distance only one-tenth the size of a hydrogen atom. The close-up roar of a jet engine amounts to one million billion times this threshhold level; this causes actual pain and soon brings on permanent deafness. Sound vibrations are transmitted by the eardrum and ossicle bones to the inner ear, a bony and membranous structure lined with tiny hairs that connect to the brain's auditory nerve. It is these hairs that are damaged most in noise-induced...