Word: obbligatos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Raymond Murcell as Polyphemus displayed a perfect combination of grotesque rage and pathetic impotence. His love aria--with an amusing piccolo obbligato solo--was especially well-ornamented and had a healthy rhythmic bounce supported by the continuo. A Scotch snap rhythm (more formally known as inverted dotting) was used for the aria. Though this is missing from some recordings of Acis, the obbligato solo clearly calls...
That was quite some interview that the Beatles' John Lennon laid on the fortnightly Rolling Stone. Hacked of hair and short of beard, John said his Goodbye to All That in some 24,000 unchosen words, accompanied by a running obbligato from Wife Yolco...
...copies, and has a firm web-hold on Top 40 radio audiences from coast to coast. In Detroit, for example, WXYZ's Dick Purtan plays it regularly during "tubby time" for kids and adults alike, who seem unable to resist its splash-splash counterpoint, quack-quack obbligato, and cheerful pop-style parody of the 1930s Hit Parade...
...kiss from your mother.' Now what kind of crummy blackmail is that, anyway? Don José is like nothing-we give him his Flowurie Song (sic), and he sings it on an old busted acoustic record. That's all he deserves." Other innovations: a kazoo obbligato in the Children's Chorus; a Habañera that begins with the Bach Chaconne and turns into a mélange of rock and Dixieland...