Word: tenebroso
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...diverse musical ideas coherently woven together. There are contrasting sections ranging from highly rhythmic and jagged themes to lyrical passages, and all are seamlessly intertwined. There are hints of solo passages—a flute here followed by an English horn there. The slow-moving second movement, Adagio tenebroso, involves an obsession with certain intervals, especially the perfect fifth. Huge differences in register (for example, the pairing of piccolo with double bass and low brass) provide for a sense of gravity and struggle. The final movement, Allegro scorrevole (“flowing easily,” one of Carter?...
...rose in church politics, Father Joseph met the youthful Bishop of Luçon, Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu, who was soon fondly calling his new friend "Tenebroso-Cavernoso"-the Dark and Deep One. When Richelieu became prime minister, he wrote that "next to God, Father Joseph had been the principal instrument of his present fortune." He begged His Grey Eminence to come to Paris and take the job he held until he died in 1638-"unofficial chief of staff for foreign affairs...
...Fogg Art Museum has recently acquired a monumental painting of Saint Jerome, by the Spanish master Ribera The picture represents the artist's best work. Although realistically rendered, it does not show the over-emphasis on disagreeable details, apparent in many of Ribera's works, nor his exaggerated "tenebroso" manner, in which the greater part of the canvas is painted in deep shadow, and certain parts in very high light against the shadow. The noble and dignified figure of the saint is well characterized and splendidly handled. Particularly fine is the rendering of flesh. The picture recalls the Apostles...
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