Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...snow lay white again upon the stony soil of New England, the grey distances of the plains, the towering Western mountains; once more poinsettias bloomed in the South's red soil. In Boston's fabled Louisburg Square, and in every other U.S. city and hamlet, carolers would sing this week below candlelit windows...
...Armed Forces Institute has its way, the venerable art of barbershop singing will soon reach an unprecedented degree of literacy and technical perfection. To teach G.I. Joe how to sing close, the Institute last week published a manual entitled How to Sing and Read Music. It contained more new tricks of sound musical pedagogy than civilian pedagogues have thought up in a long time...
...most remarkable feature of the manual is its method of teaching soldiers to read music as well as to sing. The method uses a simplified system of notation in which the notes look like the holes and slits in an old-fashioned player-piano roll (see cut). By watching them carefully, even the untutored amateur can gauge his rhythm, making the long notes properly long and the short ones correctly short. Added helps are provided by cartoons (by New Yorker Cartoonist Charles Addams, now with the armed forces) which tellingly illustrate the significance of scale steps, sharps and flats...
Just don't sing "I'll be home for Christmas" in front of Millsaps College's one man team Bill Stark. "Ah don't know why they don't move Harvard down South so ah kin go home, too," was Stark's latest comment. Kirby "Tha's what ah any, too." Pickle has shown more than an eating interest in salted pretzels lately. He is joined by the muscley T.C.U. guard, H.B. Thomas, in his consumption. Is it the salt or the pretezls of just the idea, fellas...
...Sing, O Goddess, the wrath of Achilles, scion of Peleus, Ruinous wrath, that afflicted with numberless woes the Achaeans...