Word: tone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also upset about the tone of the article, which makes Mary Lee and I seem some sort of martyrs for undergraduate education. It was only after concluding that time for our other interests would not be seriously infringed and that the positions would not be fiscally detrimental that we decided to accept an offer to continue...
...delivered a very funky rock version of "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall." When you listen to him, you have to be ready for anything -- he will almost never do the same song in the same way two times in a row. On the Band tour he sharpened the tone of "It ain't me Babe," to an almost David Bowie bitchiness: "But it still ain't me babe/ No, no, no, it sure ain't me babe/ It ain't me you're lookin' for babe." This time he syncopated the lines, "I'm not the one you want...
...entire revue sang Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land," lending the show a people's bicentennial tone without being too corny. Baez discouraged requests for an encore, "because we don't know any more songs." And the crowd thinned out, satiated by the three-hour show, emotionally drained by two hours of Dylan...
...incorporation of noise--random sounds or deliberately unpleasant ones--is common in contemporary compositions. Composers who are willing to use elements other than beautiful instrumental tone can choose among a wide range of new sound possibilities. Penderecki's depiction of the Hiroshima bombing is terrifyingly vivid because he can evoke the sounds of that event in a concrete, physical way, using clusters of notes, angry raspings and other unlovely sounds...
...rhetoric against the companies is taking on an evangelical tone. Colorado's Gary Hart (no relation to the Michigan Senator) told Senate colleagues last week that divestiture "would be the best thing that could happen to the petroleum industry in the U.S. and perhaps the world. In the final analysis, it would be the best thing that could happen to the consumers...