Word: leitmotifs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leitmotif of Rhapsody in Steel was the assembly of a Ford automobile. Thus not only did Mr. Ford manage to exhibit a cinema which attracts 6,000 Fair visitors daily but he shrewdly outmaneuvered General Motors, whose concession to have an actual assembly line on the Fair grounds was exclusive. To compose his music authoritatively Mr. Ludig visited Ford plants, discovered that their music "was in a sort of whole tone scale with a lot of overtones." He adopted certain rhythms like the poundings of hydraulic presses, used them as contrapuntal accompaniments to string and woodwind melodies. The factory whistle...