Word: gurdyish
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...quality of inevitability in our ears." His arias come to him easily, his long recitatives more painfully. "The hardest work I do," he says, "is on the little musical phrases in the recitatives that no one but a few astute musicians hear." He has made a lilting, hurdy-gurdyish ¾rhythm, among other musical devices, particularly...