Word: stringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...house near Viper. "This thang hain't much good any more. Ah put in a new fret-just took a pin and bit the head offen h'it-but h'it still don't play too good." When she plays, she puts the three-stringed instrument across her lap, then strums out the tune on the top string while the bottom two give off a thin, constant drone. For lonesome songs, she tunes the top string down a third to get a minor mode. Sample: Down in some lone valley, in a lonesome place, Where...
...Fugue for String Quartet (1955) by Victor Yellin, teaching fellow in Music, received its first performance. It is an avowedly academic exercise in a traditional style as taught to Paris Conservatory students. A suave theme forms the basis of a strict contrapuntal texture that Yellin handled competently. Some of the harmonies, however, are questionable, and the piece ends a bit too abruptly...
...concept, and at times bursts the limits of the medium, as Beethoven was to do still more in his last period with such works as the Hammerklavier Sonata, the Grosse Fuge and the Missa Solemnis. The Trio posed for the composer a problem of balance between piano and strings. Beethoven's keyboard part is full of massive chords and rich arpeggios; to help compensate for this the string parts contain many double notes. The result is a work of far richer texture and sonority than the Mozart or Yellin...
...difficult medium of two violins, two violas and two 'cellos has tempted few composers. Brahms adopted it twice and contributed the two finest examples of string sextet, of which the first in B-flat (1860) was performed last night. Brahms achieved a perfect balance between Romanticism and Classicism; the stuff of his music is Romantic, but its manipulation and design are Classical. This warm and glowing sextet is a veritable textbook of almost endless varieties of string texture. For example, the Andante often uses the violas and 'cellos as a dark quartet; the Scherzo utilizes the six instruments in three...
Leading the Eagle attack is sophomore Dick Cain, who has been described by Coach Snooks Kelley as a player destined to be "one of the greatest centers B.C. has ever had." He is the first sophomore to center the first-string line since Kelley has been...