Word: tonal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fierce rhythms that jolted Budapest listeners upright in their seats. In the Second (1917), Third (1927) and Fourth (1928), he cultivated the field; his harmonies became more astringent, the rhythms more incisive, the textures ever tighter. Listeners found much that was either impenetrable or unpalatable, but they also heard tonal colors never produced by four stringed instruments before. In the Fifth (1934) and Sixth (1939), Bartok reaped his harvest. Like Beethoven's last (Op. 155), Bartok's final quartet, composed six years before he died, is full of deep and timeless beauty...
Besides Music 51, required courses are Orchestration, either Modal or Tonal Counterpoint, Advanced Harmony, Analysis of Musical Form and Introduction to the Historical Study of Music...
...within the next three months "appropriate" new recordings will also be put on Victor's version of LP. More important to record buyers, Victor will dip into its library and reissue on LP such of its old masters as "can be rerecorded without loss of quality and tonal fidelity." That will include most of the great records made in the last decade by Arturo Toscanini, Serge Koussevitzky, Artur Rubinstein, Jascha Heifetz, Vladimir Horowitz, Marian Anderson, John Charles Thomas, many another star in a catalogue of classical music without parallel in the record industry...