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Translator Knox is unconcerned about the Bible as "literature." He paid scant attention to the rich, rhythmic prose of the King James version. He worked directly from the Latin, Hebrew and Greek texts, hoping to get the sense across and letting the poetry fall where it might. But he avoided using a specifically modern idiom because it would soon be obsolete again; his aim was to achieve a kind of timeless English...
...other kids, who sang a song "composed of two syllables, the only ones he could pronounce . . . From beneath [his] red shirt he extracted a succession of sounds [by putting his right hand under his left armpit, then pumping his left arm against it] which were somewhat dubious but very rhythmic ... At home I set myself with zeal to imitate this music-so often and so successfully that I was forbidden to indulge in such an indecent accompaniment." That was Stravinsky's first brush with rhythm...
Dissonance & Debt. In Firebird, Stravinsky had hinted at strange rhythmic innovations-accents that lurched and stuttered. In Petrouchka, he had chords embracing chords that were not even kissing cousins. In Rite of Spring, he had gone a greater distance in dissonance, and pounded the sounds home with all the drums the pit could hold...
...rhythmic patter of a burro's feet, mariachis (street singers), gathered around café tables, tell the story...
...eyed Billy Still still has no "work." But he is the U.S.'s leading Negro composer. His melodic, sometimes fiercely rhythmic symphonies and tone poems have been performed by Stokowski...