Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The way rolls west out of Grand Forks, on and on down a highway seeming to go nowhere. The soil is deep black, rich for the yellow durum wheat that grows on it. The farmhouses with their freshly painted white barns are few and far between. The towns marked on...
The Catholic ballad, written at the time of the Ulster government's first internment of Irish Republican Army suspects a year ago, seemed especially pertinent again. Northern Ireland was still shaking from the I.R.A. Provisional Wing's "Bloody Friday" assault on Belfast (TIME, July 31). Last week British...
Mick Jagger had promised to celebrate his 29th birthday-and the end of a U.S. tour that grossed the Rolling Stones $3 million-by tearing off his clothes on the stage of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. As it turned out, that was one of the few things that...
The program opened with the Beethoven Sonata in B-flat, op. 22, in the beginning of which the performer's nervousness was noticeable. But by the time the exposition of the first movement was repeated, things were under control, and there followed a structurally clairvoyant performance, emphasizing both the subtle...
But, just for example, in the exposition of the first movement, right before the closing section. Haydn makes the bold gesture of virtually sitting on long, accented, harmonically ambiguous seventh chords for six bars, a device which clearly speaks for itself. At this moment, only the basic pulse of the...