Word: piccolo
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...Brian Piccolo: A Short Season, Morris...
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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...
...tabletops. Unlike contemporary bands, fifers and drummers shun all modern innovations. Calfskin heads are used on drums instead of plastic ones, and a system of rope and leather ears is utilized to keep the heads taut, rather than metal rods. The fife must be the genuine article: a primitive piccolo consisting simply of a tube (usually wooden) with six finger holes plus a hole to blow across...
Under the bill, divorce would be permitted for such specific reasons as insanity, long-term imprisonment, incest, or if a couple has been separated for five years. This last provision, known already as the "piccolo divorzio" or "little divorce," would aid as many as 1,600,000 Italians estimated to be living in marital sin. It would directly benefit the 500,000 "white widows," whose husbands left Italy to work, then got divorced and remarried abroad...