Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heard all his life in the Holiness Sect, and from an old Negro man who had lived nearby and played blues style guitar, Bill drew sounds and techniques he liked, adding ideas of his own. Bill's contributions were a highly personal sense of timing and a desire to pitch both singing and music in higher keys than were prevalent at the time, giving his music a particularly intense quality. In the faster tunes of Blue Grass Music the upbeat is stressed rather than the usual 4/4 downbeat. The effect this creates is to free the music from an otherwise...
Colonel-Assassin. It was small wonder, then, that when Guatemalans went to the polls last week, they were receptive to Colonel Carlos Arana Osorio and his strong "law and order" pitch. Arana, 51, is best known to Guatemalans as the commander of the Zacapa Brigade, which virtually wiped out one of Latin America's largest rural guerrilla movements between...
...other times, Khan pursues a new, syncopated tempo, while Mirza takes the first note as a starting point for "bending the pitch" of the next interval, to be played in "meend," a technique similar to the "blueing" of notes in jazz. "The beauty of the sitar lies in pulling the notes from one fret to another," according to Mirza. The drawn-out sounds create the strange, modal, wailing effect which western ears find so intriguing...
...World War II. They formed 11% of the population in 1950 and now account for 35%. Since the city has only one high school, it is integrated. But the white community has persistently and bitterly opposed integration of its eleven elementary schools. School-board candidates routinely campaign on the pitch "Preserve Your Neighborhood Schools," which black critics understandably interpret as "Keep Your Schools White...
...Through Storm, which I was reading at the time, I had no idea that E. J. Kahn was the man who sat down next to me and initially introduced himself as "a reporter," But when Durk came over to us and chatted just before he began his recruiting pitch, my suspicions arose that "the reporter" was not just any reporter. Kahn finally revealed his identity to me and started telling me about his story on Durk for the New Yorker. The following day we had a longer conversation...