in music, the combining of different modes, using the same tonic (for example, the Lydian and Phrygian modes). Polymodality is encountered in contemporary music by such composers as B. Bartók, P. Hindemith, O. Messiaen, and S. S. Prokofiev. ...
A new study by John Hopkins University has found a chemical pollutant from the production of grease-proof food wrapping and Teflon (PFOA) in the umbilical chords of nearly every baby tested. The test found that 298 out of 300 blood samples from umbilical chords tested positive for PFOA, which...
Orwell was a keen critic of imperialism, fascism, Stalinism, and capitalism, all of which seemed to him forms of political oppression, and although he espoused a sort of socialism, he refused to be formally associated with any ideology or party label. His works are concerned with the sociopoli...
of everyone in the band. I might be the one who says, we're going into the studio on this day, I want to make this tune or that tune, but when we're making that tune it's all about, what Joe's opinion on the chords, and what his brother TJ Koleoso's opinion on the b...
This is a quiet, melancholy film, and Lumet uses music sparingly. The understated score by Kenyon Hopkins is one of the composer’s best. As the opening credits are shown, Hopkins starts off with nothing more than a flute playing a simple motif, joined by broken chords on a guitar, as...
Denny also discovered from his own playing that he could do things on his guitars that he couldn’t do on other guitars. Riffs and chords that seemed impossible before were now easy. The speed at which he moved on the fretboard increased significantly and he became a much better player. ...
This is a quiet, melancholy film, and Lumet uses music sparingly. The understated score by Kenyon Hopkins is one of the composer’s best. As the opening credits are shown, Hopkins starts off with nothing more than a flute playing a simple motif, joined by broken chords on a guitar, as...
He founded his own ensemble in 1966 and by the late 1960s was composing works based on the almost hypnotic repetition of short modular units of minutely changing chords, tonal progressions, chiming timbres, and steady rhythms. Having studied drumming in childhood, he has retained an interest ...
By the day of the performance I had the lyrics and the chords down and the tempo and all that. When it came time for the actual performance I was feeling confident. But then I made a little mistake in the first verse and then in the first chorus I skipped a chord so the music was...
beginning of the 17th Century. Music for the everyday use of parish organschleppers was encoded in organ tablature, derived from lute tablature. The note values were not written, but which key to push. Modern guitar chords are a descendant of this practice. So the correct title is...