Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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ROYAL GARDEN BLUES (Bob Crosby; Decca). Able rhythm organization of musical antiquarians revives an old classic of the Chicago style...
...suburban life, Ogden Nash serenely continues to steamroller the Muses to the delight of all spectators. His poetry, which has now come to represent a new genre of versification, is more rambling and full of humorous digressions than ever. As in his former books, he mutilates metre and rhythm with gusto, but here he is more successful in his butchery of poetic principle, for his creations are bristling with original, biting observations that have the reader chuckling at every line. Only infrequently does he lapse, inevitably perhaps, into frequently does he lapse, inevitably perhaps, into over absurdities of expression bordering...
JONGO (Elsie Houston; Liberty Music Shop, 795 Madison Ave., Manhattan). Brazilian magic song, proving that the infectious American rhythm is Pan-American...
...Rhythm (Bing Crosby, Beatrice Lillie; TIME...
...mind it is the most significant book in this field which has appeared in years." But to laymen and most of the nation's 1,000,000 teachers it might have been more significant had it been written in plain English instead of clinical jargon. Sample: "Music and rhythm, apparently are facilitating factors for several types of learning. Diserens found that music delays fatigue, speeds up voluntary activities, increases the extent of many muscular reflexes, reduces and changes suggestibility and alters the electrical conductivity of tissues." In other words (Playwright Noel Coward's) : "Extraordinary how potent cheap music...