Word: whirr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sensuously rustles and prickles. When Strauss would have it a smother of sensuality in the full, thick, velvet voices of horns and violoncellos; when he would have his wood-winds bite as with the little white teeth of Salome in the old chronicles; when the dance ends in a whirr of trills, high and shrill, darting and piercing, the conductor was heightening voice to the composer and as quick, sure-fingered, with every thread of instrumental color...