Word: tremolos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upward run, at least twice in each hymn stanza. He will not play the harmony as is, but manufactures harmonies of his own, with many fancy chromatic chords. His harmony is always thin, and lacking the power of the original as given in the hymn book. . . . He uses his tremolo too much, and drives everybody nearly to tears by his abuse of the chimes. Now he insists upon adding a Vox Humana stop to the organ. If I chant the Communion Service, as I do at our German Communion, he chases me on the organ, keeping about one note behind...
Recent investigations in the psychological laboratory have demonstrated that every good singer uses the vibrato, not only on sustained notes, but on short notes and glides. What musical critics object to is the tremolo. We are prepared to show that the vibrato is used by every one of the Metropolitan opera singers in at least 95% of his intonations; that the vibrato of these singers consists of a pitch oscillation around the heard pitch averaging about one-half musical step in extent; that it also expresses itself in loudness and timbre pulsations; that one-half of the best song tones...
...most (there have been nine), but it was bigger & better. Presiding was the founder and Grand Diapason, spare, bald-pated Author Chester Werntz ("diet") Shafer. As usual, most of the hilarity was provided by the "business" report, weightily and pompously delivered by Author Moore, Vox Humana (and Acting Tremolo) of the Guild. Vox Humana Moore pointed with pride to progress in one of the Guild's prime missions: conservation of the wild castiron animal life which is so fast disappearing from U. S. lawns. Congress was now considering the Guild's demand for a preserve, probably...