Word: instrumentality
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...three records, though, it is Goldfrapp's voice that is most beguiling. At moments it recalls the whispered seduction of Marlene Dietrich, then eases up the range to Kate Bush or some operatic diva, and on occasion even morphs completely into synthesizer effect. "Ultimately the voice is an instrument, so you can use it as a texture or put it into the foreground and make it into something distinct," she says. The Goldfrapp sound has undoubtedly inspired some contemporary pop starlets like Rachel Stevens and some of Kylie Minogue's more recent offerings, even if critics can't always agree...
...HUPD officer investigated reports of a musician soliciting money for playing an instrument outside of Holworthy Hall. Prior to the officer’s arrival, the alleged musician had departed, taking his music with...
...Haitian parents Marie and Dany Nemorin. Poetry is a big part of who I am. The poets who interest me the most are Emily Dickinson, Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes and Robert Frost. I used to wonder how poetry captivated me, but then I realized that music minus instrument = poetry. Most of the poems I wrote at the beginning of my 7th-grade year were about my crushes, but as the school year ended I started to write about how I thought of this world. Do I want to be a poet? I don't know if I want to take...
Another love that I have is music. I play the clarinet in my school's highest band, the wind ensemble. Last summer I took piano lessons for my own pleasure. I caught on to this instrument quickly, and I play it as much as possible--often to soothe myself after a stressful...
...weapons that incinerated those two unfortunate cities represented a technological innovation with fearsome consequences for the future of humanity. But the U.S. had already crossed a terrifying moral threshold when it accepted the targeting of civilians as a legitimate instrument of warfare. That was a deliberate decision, indeed, and it's where the moral argument should rightly focus...