Word: tonal
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...molding the new style during his 25 year reign of the Philadelphia Orchestra and it is the inheritors of this style whom we heard yesterday in Sanders Theatre. Thus the remarkable stylistic features of the group's performance--the infinite modulations in dynamics, in the vibrato, and in the tonal intensity itself; the subtle and varied means of tongueing (comparable to bowing on a string instrument) and the avoidance of a "pecking" staccato; the richness and homogeneity of the blended tone not only of all five instruments but also of the many other combinations possible all these brought to mind...
...however, no matter how perfectly achieved by these men from Philadelphia, can never even approach the chamber music ideal of the string quartet. For one thing, these five woodwind instruments which have somehow found a place in the modern orchestra after centuries of experimentation and sifting have not that tonal and technical uniformity which is the raison d'etre of the string quartet. Of course it may be answered that a woodwind quintet can aim at quite a different and equally valid ideal. Unfortunately, composers have not yet shown what this might be. The two classical works on the program...
...some unknown reason, will last only a few7 hours. When he is creating a new perfume he does no sniffing, simply jots down a formula, claims he knows exactly what the final result will smell like. Says Beaux: "It is like writing music. Each component has a definite tonal value ... I can compose a waltz or a funeral march...
Furtwängler's notion of the reason: "Tonal music [i.e., the music of the classics, from Beethoven to Home Sweet Home] meets certain deep-rooted biological requirements in human nature...
...vocal masses were more evenly balanced against each other in these works. Also, in the case of the Benedictus, the choirs were distributed in three parts of Sanders Theatre while in O Jesu the size of the chorus was cut considerably. There is no doubt, however, that the tonal chorus achieved, from the very first subdued motet to the final exultant Jubilate, place it in a unique and exalted rank among college choirs...