Word: melodye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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West Germany's allies expect little change in the country's foreign policy if Kohl becomes Chancellor. Like Schmidt and Genscher, Kohl favors NATO's plans for the deployment of new nuclear missiles next year. He is not expected to be any more receptive than Schmidt to...
Yet the movement actually has old and honorable antecedents. In the first of the 48 preludes and fugues that make up The Well-Tempered Clavier, Bach unfolded a serene meditation in the key of C over a placid, unchanging rhythmic pattern. To set the proper bardic tone for his mythological...
Glass's recent music-theater work, The Photographer, contains some of his best music to date. A first-act song for six voices, called Circles, has an immediately appealing melody that sticks in the mind as vividly as a Top 40 hit. Later, the music grows longer and denser...
With the lads from Liverpool off conquering the States, the Stones blasted the likes of Gerry and the Pacemakers and the Swinging Blue Jeans out of England's Top Ten. At the not-so-subtle prompting of producer Andrew Oldham, the press created an image for the group: semi-civilized...
Although the 15 symphonies are his best-known works, it is likely that a truer portrait of the composer is to be found in the quartets. After Shostakovich's daring opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk was denounced in the pages of Pravda as "muddle instead of music," he apologized...