Word: chord
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...provided by the Glee Club and the Choral Society. Their entrances were crisp, their diction clear (including every umlaut), and their pitch perfect. Their dramatic "Barabbam" at the turning point of the drama was frightening, although Mr. Munch spoiled part of its effect by having the organist hold the chord for ten seconds--perhaps the longest quarter note in history...
...inheritance from the nineteenth century and the last few hundred years of Western music in general. How much shall he keep, and how shall he replace what he discards? If he decides to preserve tonality (which might be defined briefly as a system in which one tone, or a chord built on that tone, acts as a sort of aural home base) he has the advantage of manipulating the vocabulary of musical relations and tensions with which most of us are familiar since we have grown up in a world dominated by eighteenth and nineteenth-century tonality. Bartok's tonality...
...portraits of Baudelaire in the exhibition, (a lithograph by Rouault and an etching by Manet), which sum up the pleasure of collecting. Perhaps motives of sentiment lie behind these choices as well as aesthetic discretion. This is perfectly legitimate. Rouault and Les Fleur du Mal strike a rich chord. It is just this sort of thing which lends collecting an added charm...
Tito struck a popular chord among neutralist Asians in denouncing colonialism, by preaching independence and urging non-alignment...
...then there are the non-nonconformists who wouldn't be caught dead with their beards down or their big toes showing, and who occasionally take a perverse pleasure in astounding their nonconformist neighbors by defending Dulles or admitting that Marilyn Monroe might strike a chord of response after all. This super avant-garde attitude will soon be superseded by an equally avant-garde reaction of non-non-nonconformism, and so forth...