Word: intervallic
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The beginning lines of the Tcherepnin recall the first theme of the second movement of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4--fluid and passionate. The notes move stepwise, with many minor seconds--the smallest interval between consecutive notes in Western music. After a short figure that resembles a melody from On...
Ronald Reagan, who played a commander of the submarine Starfish in Hellcats of the Navy (1957), had never been aboard an aircraft carrier. So he was visibly delighted at the strafing runs, submarine hunts and other shows of Navy air prowess put on for him during a visit to the...
The Mottetti, stylishly performed by Mezzo-Soprano Janice Felty and Pianist Edward Auer, recalls the late Ital ian composer Luigi Dallapiccola in its lyricism and sophisticated melodic charm. Harbison sets dark, vivid images from Montale's Le Occasioni (1939) allusively, often employing the familiar device of musical tone painting...
The latest round of attack and counterattack had begun a week earlier when Israeli warplanes staged a strike on Palestinian guerrilla targets near the Zahrani River in southern Lebanon, killing three people and wounding 20. Two days later the Israelis struck again, this time hitting a guerrilla base at Damur...
Even so, many people delay in seeking medical help. The consequences can be fateful. More than half of the 550,000 Americans who die of heart attacks each year succumb before they reach a hospital. In a study of coronary patients at the University of Rochester, cardiologists found that the...