Word: music
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MILITARY PHILOSOPHERS, by Anthony Powell. The ninth volume in his serial novel, A Dance to the Music of Time, expertly convoys Powell's innumerable characters through the futility, boredom and heroism of World...
...this calculated bombardment, the three colonies were granted a 15-day respite from all music. Then they entered cages which allowed them, by tripping electric circuits, to opt either for Mozart or Schoenberg -in both cases, compositions they had not heard before-or to listen to nothing but the fan. The results should be encouraging to Mozart buffs. The rats exposed to his music during their compulsory concerts overwhelmingly tuned in on him. The group indoctrinated by Schoenberg split almost evenly between him and Mozart-as did the control group, which was unfamiliar with both composers...
...this peculiar experiment, which was arranged by Psychologists Henry A. Cross Jr., Charles G. Halcomb and William W. Matter, was not to prove how terrible atonalism is, but to see whether animals that seldom make much noise themselves could respond to the arranged sounds that humans know as music. Cross, who happens to prefer Mozart himself, has an explanation of why the rats agreed with his musical tastes. Schoenberg, the father of serial music, wrote works of extraordinarily complex harmonies and rhythms; in behaviorist jargon, his music is dense with "information bits." Mozart used the traditional chromatic scale...
Cross's colleague, Halcomb, who is currently bombarding the ears of a creature with a more advanced auditory system, the guinea pig, with assorted sounds, eventually hopes to apply to man what he has learned from his music-loving rats. It may be possible, he argues, that the human infant is susceptible to far more sophisticated instruction than it ordinarily gets during its first months and years. If exposure can teach a baby rat, which to some scientists is not a very reliable creature for experimentation (TIME, Feb. 21), to discriminate between Mozart and Schoenberg, who can say what...
Died. Coleman Hawkins, 64, giant among jazz saxophonists (see Music...