Word: tone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Schoenberg's famous twelve-tone system liberated music, not from tonality as is commonly claimed, but, less ominously, from the ancient laws of harmony. His system represented not the loss of all order but the penetration to a simpler more elastic and potentially liberating order...
...Barbarians. The President himself set the tone of response last week. Speaking before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, he declared: "There can be no compromise with lawlessness and no surrender to force if free education is to survive in the U.S. It is time for faculties, boards of trustees and school administrators to have the backbone to stand up against this kind of situation." In May 1 Law Day speeches, other Administration officials echoed Nixon, calling student rebels "ideological criminals" and "new barbarians." Said Attorney General John Mitchell: "The time has come for an end to patience. I call...
African Dashikis and guerrilla-style fatigues set the sartorial tone and tough radicalism dominated the rhetoric last week when 350 delegates to the First National Black Economic Conference met in Detroit. First they ejected white news men. Then they rejected capitalism for a socialist state for Negroes. Within this brave new world, young Negroes would spurn such "dead end" and "status quo" jobs as driving trucks, delivering mail or repairing television sets...
SINCE the monetary crisis of last fall, the main prop under the French franc has been the stubborn pride of Charles de Gaulle. Now, without his formidable non, talk of devaluation of the Continent's weakest currency has assumed a new tone of inevitability. Even the West Germans seem ready to assist in a broader change of currencies by increasing the value of the robust mark. The only real question in France is when and how much...
...Choirs sang Gabrieli's O Jesu mi dulcissime, Sweelinck's Psalm 150, and Schutz's Psalm 150 with commendable intonation, balance, dynamic nuance, and tone. The parts were defined and clearly combined rather than blended into an ermine confusion. The antiphonal Gabrieli suffered from a slight lack of vitality, but at least avoided the exaggerated vivacity which often vulgarizes his works. Schutz's great Psalm, a polychoral, instrumentally supported work in concerto style, was distinguished for its sensitive singing and generally excellent brass playing. But the Sweelinck provided the evening's finest performance. Here purity of syllable, beauty of phrase...