Word: tonalism
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...Dreamt…,” when read separately, are as ghostly and strange as ever before. This constitutes one of Linkous’s most endearing traits—somehow, he submerges his terrifying poetry such that the finished product rests beneath a veneer of tonal sanity. The nightmarish qualities of the lyrics come as a surprise when read; set to music their hazy imagery often fades beneath threadbare melodies, engendering a soothing, tidal feeling. As on 1999’s “Good Morning, Spider,” a few songs on “Dreamt?...
...ERIC L. FRITZCrimson Staff WritersJunior Boys: “So This is Goodbye”At risk of taking the easy way out, I have to say that the most recent offering from Canada’s Junior Boys’ turns a neat trick: reestablishing and sustaining familiar tonal palette over the course of an entire album while eluding the joint specter of drudgery and repetition.Yet rather than a sprawling masterwork, “So This is Goodbye” is a cohesive album, whose melodic bass lines issue taut rejoinders to lazy keyboard echoes, delicate synth arpeggios...
...Alton-Mann films - T-Men, He Walked by Night, Reign of Terror, Border Incident and Devil's Doorway - are unlike any other noirs in their visual density and tonal texture. Like many movies in the genre, these are indebted to the look that Orson Welles and Gregg Toland created for Citizen Kane: chiaroscuro lighting, characters in extreme closeup or long shot, and plenty of low-angle shots. Alton pushed these tenets further than most. He shot even the sitting figures from below, with the tops of rooms pressing down on them; he loved ceiling shots more than Japanese tourists...
...from the desperation of Demirjian’s Jenny. The rest of the songs are fantastic as well, ranging from short, odd fragments, to grand ballads of sex, tragedy, and comedy. I have never seen Weill’s signature unison singing, quintessentially German sound, and schizophrenic jumps between tonal and atonal music pulled off so well.Needless to say, the stubborn modernity (not to mention raunchiness) of this production is bound to keep some viewers from liking the opera. Regardless of whether you end up enjoying yourself or not, “The Threepenny Opera” is definitely worth...
...renaming courses twice, there should be a concerted effort, especially in the social sciences and the humanities, to certify additional departmental courses that meet a particular Core requirement while maintaining their departmental administration.Currently, for example, there is a single departmental course (Music 2, “Foundations of Tonal Music”) that satisfies the Literature and Arts B requirement. In contrast, there are 17 departmental courses (ranging from introductory geology to organic chemistry to mechanics and relativity) that satisfy the Science A requirement. The fact that there tend to be more extra-departmental “Core?...