Word: tempos
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...melody on a piano-accordion while Master Stan oom-pahed bass runs for Down the Field, Ragging the Scale, Christopher Columbus. Accustomed to learn his pieces entirely by ear, Stanwurt appeared completely at ease when Mr. von Schilling tried to confuse him by varying the rhythm and tempo of Dixie. Expert musicians pronounced Stanwurt's embouchure (placing of the lips on the mouthpiece) as good as his father had claimed it to be. As they moved on through music stores in Syracuse and Rochester, Mr. von Schilling reminded interviewers that his son also plays the trumpet and trombone, proudly...
...purses they could get. The bigger the purse, the more eccentric their variations. Shields would take a phrase, play all around it on his clarinet. La Rocca would pick it up for a few "licks," pass it on to Eddie Edwards' trombone. Henry Ragas' piano set the tempo. Tony Sbarbaro's drums rattled a furious counterpoint. Other New Orleans bands had similar technique but none developed it so highly as the Dixieland, whose members rehearsed so often together that each player could almost mind-read the others' musical intentions. In 1916 they were offered...
...Good." Dog trot is the tempo of the new reign, and last week Britons were about ready to take preliminary stock of it. Out from Court circles rippled rumors that thus far every member of His Majesty's Government who has had private audience has afterward been heard to say, in effect, "He's good...
Thus another nail was driven into the common fallacy of supposing that Italian Fascism exists to maintain the Italian capitalist status quo. Instead, under pressure of Sanctions and the cost of the Ethiopian campaign, Italy is becoming at ever faster tempo a kingdom in which the individual capitalist has less & less that he can boss...
...learned the art of pantomime for the silents, he isn't going to give it up because some fool invented a way to make the flickers squawk. And being old-fashioned, he restores slapstick to its lusty youth. It dazzles by the force of its mad pollmell succession. The tempo is definitely stepped up way above normal; the old trick for preventing lag is remembered...