Word: moodier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Venetian fiestas and parades hung in castles and mansions from Italy to England. In his youth,Bel-lotto aped his uncle's style and signed his canvases "Bernardo Bellotto Canaletto," a quirk that has caused confusion among collectors ever since. But as he matured, he developed a colder, moodier, darker technique...
...intricate play of rhythm and unabashed melody, Copland caught Manhattan's very voice, from staccato bleats suggesting the cry of the streets to the muffled roar of the subway. The music moves from an almost literal description of the skyline to deeper, moodier explorations that offer Copland's own comment on life in the city. Even the lightest passages have ominous undertones, and in the soaring sonorities and wailing dissonances that punctuate the work, there is a darkness that some critics took to be "a terrifying hopelessness...