Word: syntax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual prize "for a major symphonic work by a U. S. composer" to blond-mustached David Van Vactor of Evanston, Ill. Last week Composer Van Vactor conducted his prize-winning Symphony in D at a Philharmonic concert in Carnegie Hall, a piece of sound musical grammar & syntax, with considerable Sibelius influence. Incidentally, it made critics wonder again at the complete anarchy of the music market. Sample prices paid other composers : Schubert for his song Die Post: 20?; Frank Silver, for his and Irving Conn's Yes, We Have No Bananas...
...book, which gave some remarkably detailed dirt on life in an internment camp, were aware that something new was loose in the literary world. What it was became only gradually clearer when Cummings published Tulips and Chimneys (1923) and six subsequent volumes of poems. With their peculiar typography, syntax, and use of words, these books struck most first-time readers as wilful puzzlers, made many distrust their own eyes and Poet Cummings...
...There is no excuse for not offering Latin. ... I wouldn't know a gerund from a syntax...
...which notes follow and precede each other had become arbitrary suppositions. By his new theory of atonality, all notes were created free & equal; the sequence in which they followed each other was merely a matter of taste. An atonal melody was governed, not by the rules of musical syntax, but by the rules of eeny, meeny, miney, mo. Composer Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps became the most imitated composition of its period; Composer Schönberg's declaration of independence influenced nearly half the younger composers of Europe...
Nazi objections to Hindemith's music are based not on his race (he is guaranteed pure Aryan), but on the technical character of the music itself. Hindemith discarded the melodious romanticism of traditional German music, defied all conventions of musical syntax, did in music what James Joyce and Gertrude Stein were doing in words. To Nazi censors, who frown on everything antiRomantic, Hindemith's music was pure anarchism...