Word: modale
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...City” set to Wayne Shorter’s haunting “They Speak No Evil.” His voice, a piercing jet of sound, flew over the jagged melodics, weaving them into a blindingly rapid melody, as Malone and Barron easily grounded him in a modal swing. On the other hand, his rendition of the 13th century mystical poet Rumi’s “I Like The Sunrise,” set to a Von Freeman sax solo, told a melodic story in which his voice fully rounded out, replicating the searing, insistent quality...
...vegetables and now refers to his music as “revolutionary Earth music—I consider my music to be the music of farmers.” The big band jazz suite in “Take the Zen Train” makes innovative use of modal and blues tonalities, and symbolizes Ho’s desire for thoughtful self-realization and social action...
...Romney. At our peak, a Harvard class reunion paid us a thousand bucks to play for approximately an hour and plied us with wine and food. I think it’s safe to say that, as an acoustic jazz group composed of Harvard undergraduates specializing in late 60s modal jazz, we were peerless...
...Wallace, who won a MacArthur "genius" grant in 1997, was a tennis prodigy and a math whiz (his Amherst philosophy major focused on modal logic, whatever that is). His thoughts sprawled beyond the boundaries that most writers observe into notes and equations, one sentence going on for so many pages even Faulkner would have demanded a period. He seemed curious about everything: he wrote nonfiction articles about food and porn conventions and Dennis Hastert and women's tennis. His essay for the New York Times' Play Magazine celebrating "Federer as Religious Experience" is a classic of sports writing...
Crum recommended taking a “multi-modal approach” to spreading the word by using e-mails, postcards, fliers, laptops for sign-up, and a graphic on the university Web site...