Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Musically, Giannini's work is eclectic and often reverts to an almost 19th-century style. Yet the music is no hodge-podge; everything works, and everything is appropriate. It is heartening to find a composer willing to write for the voice as though it were something besides an instrument. Vocally, the score is in the Verdi-Puccini tradition; orchestrally, it recalls most frequently the sonorities of Richard Strauss, especially of Rosenkavalier. Giannini did not shy away from penning a beautiful, lush love duet for each pair of lovers. The first act has a fugal trio that can take its place...
This is more accurate than any other navigation system, and the Navy believes that Transit is capable of doing even better. Tucked into last week's Transit satellite was a Canadian "guest" instrument for studying background cosmic noise, and the satellite was allowed to spin for its convenience. When the spin is stopped by releasing small weights, the accuracy of navigation by means of Transit is expected to improve...
What Makes Sense. Playing with Coleman, who uses a white plastic sax with a warmer tone than the conventional metal instrument, are Charlie Haden (bass), Edward Blackwell (drums) and Don Cherry (trumpet). They all seemed to be going their own ways. The direction of any tune might change from bar to bar, depending on which musicians happened to have "the dominant ear at that moment." The drummer repeatedly shifted his rhythm, forcing concessions from the other players. At best, the result evoked an abstract expressionist painting whose dots, slashes and blobs are miraculously knitted into a pattern...
...three plays, much the richest and finest is the old No play, where distance in time mates well with that of place; where everything is the more ritualized for being more barbaric; where there is a splendid show of costume and music (the chief instrument is the banjo-like samisen), of processions and dancing. Here, too, the story is the universal one of the resourceful servant, who in this case plays a serious role: he gets his disguised young master past a hostile mountain barrier. Among many felicities, the acting and formal dancing of Shoroku II,* as the retainer, stand...
...Christopher Smart, a mad 18th century English poet, remarked of the cat, in the most wonderful poem ever written on that elusive animal, "he is an instrument for the children to learn benevolence upon." In less poetic terms, the cat has the power of teaching manners to men when they are still children and most need the lesson. Unlike the dog ("beloved of hypocrites," as the astute aelurophile, Charles Baudelaire, observed), the cat will not tolerate abuse, and thus remains master in its own or anyone else's house...