Word: modality
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...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...
...bendingly complicated at times, syncopated and fluid at others. Still, he never really abandons the post-bop vocabulary of his previous album, “EnRoute.” While his jazz-inflected playing is interesting in its own way, there is something removed and academic about his endless modal cycles. The style becomes a bit tiresome about halfway through his sets. One can only marvel at his muscle memory for so long before all his solos start to sound a little too familiar. Part of it, for me at least, was that while discordant jazz lines can sound cool...