Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point without trouble. Then Hampton calls for Flying Home. Band responds. Music gets hotter. Saxophonist gets up for solo, squirms, twists, flops, lies on back, feet up. Critic for Algemeen Handelsblad makes note for next day's review: "Tenor saxophonist lies on ground and copulates with his shimmering instrument." Hampton rattles drumsticks on his soles. Calls out "Hey bob-a-reebob!" Crowd calls (Dutch accent) "Hey bob-a-reebob!" Fellow cries "Louder, louder...
Probably the most fascinating record of Eastern music ever made, the Ragas are played by three instruments: drums, a drone-type stringed instrument, and a melodic stringed instrument. The drummer starts setting up complex rhythm often based on seven beats, over which the melody instrument improvises an increasingly complicated part, while the drone keeps up a fill-in. The music is quite difficult to understand at first, partially due to the strange scales it uses. But repeated hearings brig out the intricate beauty of its very advanced art. It is worthwhile buying the "de luxe" edition, as the explanatory notes...
...Nasser's chief instrument of propaganda is the Voice of the Arabs. On four wave lengths, the Voice pours out a stream of stirring Arab songs, inflammatory news summaries and incendiary comment with the hypnotic insistence of a kind of political muezzin. It alleges "imperialist" plots, fictitious massacres, Zionist "conspiracies." It recommends riots in Jordan, rebellion in Morocco, revenge in Algeria. Blaring from loudspeakers in cafes and hovels throughout the Middle East, it is for a vast number of illiterate Arabs the only news they get. By relay stations up the Nile, it also aims at all Africa, beaming...
...flare, recorded last month, set a record for all such occurrences observed. The movies were taken with a coronograph, a special telescopic instrument, at the Air Force's Sacramento Observatory in New Mexico...
...suitable traditional modality and over-all simplicity, with just a couple of dashes of rhythmic complexity. In one variation he happily gave the theme to the piano with an effective plucked accompaniment in the 'cello. In places, however, Beveridge's piano writing (like Rzewski's) suffocated the stringed instrument in the lower portion of its range...