Word: tonalism
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...unfairly used as a means to put McCartney in his place, although Lennon had taken pains lately to redefine details of his collaboration with Paul, and to make sure credit was distributed accurately. The melodic range of the music ran from marching band to rhythm and blues, from tonal stunt flying to atonal acrobatics, once in a while all in the same song. The Beatles sang ballads that could almost be Elizabethan, rockers that still sound as if they come from the distant future, and it was hard to peg all that invention to any single source. Lennon joked about...
...ethnomusicology" of Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific. Pop is sometimes treated in solemn detail. On the Beatles: "Early style is typified by She Loves You (1963), with its duple metre, almost hypnotic beat, pentatonic melody, 32-bar song form and tonic-mediant tonal relationship; its text concerns adolescent love, and has a quasi ritualistic 'yeah, yeah, yeah' refrain...
...reason why some American impressionist canvases do not look like French impressionism is that they depicted a different kind of glare: a high-keyed white light, rather than a vibrating spectrum of color a la Monet. They were, in other words, tonal rather than coloristic impressionism. Some of the artists who had studied in Paris, notably Childe Hassam, managed to work the authentic French flicker into their surfaces without making it seem heavy handed. Hassam's view of a victory parade in 1918, The Union Jack, New York, April Morn, with its vibrant banners hanging over a throng...
...flute-and-organ option features Jean-Pierre Rampal and Marie-Claire Alain. But the flute cannot execute the double stops and many other subtleties possible on the viola d'amore, a little-used instrument with more strings than the normal viola. In this piece Martin fused serial and tonal procedures skillfully, and Thompson's interpretation particularly emphasizes the work's pain...
...RAWLS is going to go to war and the rest of of will stay at home. "Let me give it to you straight," the multi-tonal diplomat told America's youth in a widely circulated series of "public service" ads. "Register--not because it's the law...cause it's the right thing...