Word: melodye
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In other works, Thomson has dabbled in modality and flirted with serialism; like Ives, he is not above quoting a famous melody (like My Country, 'Tis of Thee) when it suits his expressive purposes. The French influence on him is strong, as befits a prize pupil of Nadia Boulanger...
to the melody of your harps I will not listen.
DIED. Robert Russell Bennett, 87, composer and conductor best known for his orchestrations of some 300 Broadway musicals, including Show Boat, Oklahoma!, South Pacific and The Sound of Music, as well as for his scores for movies (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) and TV series (Victory at Sea); in New...
Harbison writes in a complex yet easily approachable idiom that represents a bridge between postwar formalism and the new conservatism of the past decade. As a young man in the '60s, he was strongly influenced by a pervasive emphasis on form. Music was supposed to be highly organized. "Gestures...
"It took me a long time to reconcile what I felt with the general climate of the times," he says. "But it wasn't a bad thing because it forced me to think. As a composer, I've become more concerned now with melody, but I'm...