Word: schrade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Yale Music Historian Leo Schrade came across the faded parchment, which had lain unnoticed for years in a dusty stack at the university's Branford College Library, he spotted, above the Latin words from Jeremiah (Lamentations 3: 13-34), the spidery hooks, loops and slashes of the ancient musical-note symbols called neumes. * The sheet resembled the earliest known neumatic documents, but was probably at least 100 years older. Yale's Latin Professor Clarence Mendell had bought the document in 1938 from London's E. P. Goldschmidt & Co., Ltd. Experts traced it back to Luxeuil, after...
...musical notations was a knottier task, since they could have been scratched in almost any time up to the 12th century, when that kind of notation went out of style. Infra-red and ultraviolet photography made the words and music assume about the same intensity, a fact that leads Schrade to believe that "at least the sub stance of the inks is basically the same," hence, that the neumes were written not long after the words...
...Branford College had paid about $100 for the fragment. Now, if it were for sale, a fair asking price would be $15,000. Professor Schrade rescued his treasure from the dust, had it cleaned, photographed and installed in an air-conditioned basement vault. Probably no one will ever know what it sounds like; scholars have not succeeded in transcribing the old neumes into modern notation...
Strike Leader Paul Schrade, president of Local 887, put the blame for the U.A.W.'s defeat on the Government's strict "hands-off" policy. Actually, the Administration's policy was nothing more than a return to the old idea of collective bargaining in which labor and management are left to work out their problems without meddling by Government...
...such fringe benefits as higher pensions (to $66 a month), more severance pay and the right to smoke on the job. North American offered a few new fringe benefits (additional group insurance, a 2?-an-hour cost-of-living allowance) and a pay boost averaging 8? an hour. Paul Schrade, 28-year-old Yaleman and president of U.A.W. Local 887, Los Angeles, said that "the company refuses to negotiate." Answered North American's white-thatched Chairman J. H. ("Dutch") Kindelberger: "[Union] demands . . . will add more than $95 million a year to the company's operating cost...