Word: tonal
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...piano seem not like a man-made instrument but like a vibrant human voice spontaneously singing, whispering, shouting to the skies. Every piano student knew the pieces by Gluck, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt. But fresh cause for wonder were Hofmann's dazzling arpeggios, the flying double octaves, the countless tonal colors. Said Critic Olin Downes in the New York Times next day: "It was playing of the grandest and most compelling sort...
...first-night audience shouted and hissed so loudly that the dancers were unable to hear the music. The white-faced Nijinsky beat time from the wings. A Londoner was so outraged that he wrote a letter to the Times calling Le Sacre "a threat against the foundations of our tonal institutions . . . [standing for] all the unnameable horrors of revolution, murder and rapine. ... It should have been dedicated to Dr. Crippen, the dentist who murdered seven wives in their baths...
...During the first minute, he will read a carefully contrived phonetic test including many of the important combinations of sounds commonly used by phoneticians to reveal variations in speech and will complete the period with an impromptu talk in the freest and easiest natural manner, so that his characteristic tonal quality, intonation and inflection may be observed. Included with each record will be an index card to be filled out with information concerning the influences to which he has been subjected, both hereditary and environmental, as well as his parents' origin, his schooling, and any other influences of which...
...better things, or because the tenor of the age is not in tune with staccato rhythms and the grosser tin-pan melodies is a matter for speculation. Certainly the technique of arranging musical instruments before a microphone has increased the illusion of reality almost as much as the widened tonal range of most of the modern receiving sets. With many of the earlier loudspeakers, the only sounds possible to their narrow compass were the modulations of the crooner (an express specialization for the radio) or the stridencies of the more African jazz. But dance music is returning to melody, popular...
...recoil. He also invented a smokeless powder, tried to invent an airplane, became a British subject, was knighted. "Dr. Shush'' (Hiram Percy Maxim) is his son. Another child is Mrs. George Albert Cutter of Dedham, Mass., who before the War wrote dainty dance music ("Ten Little Tonal Fancies"), operettas (Ten Teddy Bears'), and plays (Ann is Chic But is She Safe?). "Dr. Shush" also has a daughter. Her name is Percy...