10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIAPASONIC»
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diapasonic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
diapasonic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A General History of the Science and Practice of Music in ...
As to the consonant intensions, such as the diatessaronic, diapentic, diapasonic,
and the rest, they were expressed by certain characters, which I purposely omit,
as being foreign to the present practice. The musicians of this day express the ...
2
Music Therapy: Death and Grief
Damari had a distinctive alto voice with a strong Yemenite accent and unusual
dynamical and diapasonic abilities. She collaborated for many years with the
poet Natan Alterman and the musician Moshe Vilenski, who often arranged her
songs ...
3
Hearing History: A Reader
25 In another instance, Andre Breton, writing his "Ode to Charles Fourier" in 1945
, late in the age of radio, teased the grand harmonies of Fourier down from the
stars and navigated them across the diapasonic seas of an invocatory keyboard:
...
4
Witz (American Literature Series)
A rumbling wells, quakes the theater's vault, diapasonic, shakes draped forms on
flutes, flakes goldleaf, rattles mirrorglass foxed in smoke and framed in chrome
and cracking: statuesque Eve dropping her marble apple to roll to a doorstop, ...
5
Conrad in the Public Eye: Biography, Criticism, Publicity
The Bible and Flaubert were his companions throughout the many years he
voyaged in strange, southern seas. From the Bible he absorbed his racy,
idiomatic, and diapasonic English; from the supple, shining prose of the great
French writer ...
6
In the Forest: Visual and Material Worlds of Andamanese ...
... the second round consisted of the women sang the lament through together, to
create a diapasonic structure moving from apparent cacophony to polyphony.
This form of singing is called eteebabe, which means 'tying together,' as two ...
7
From Traveling Show to Vaudeville: Theatrical Spectacle in ...
... as it forces its way along the streets or into the crazy shows—surely conceived
by madmen for madmen—the indescribable and hideous symphony of noise
running the gamut from shrill steam whistles to the diapasonic roar of machinery;
...
8
Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts
Correspondingly, what was lost in the restricted pitch mobility of percussion was
gained in the diapasonic movement of microtonality along the line of the
glissando. Indeed, for all the attention subsequently paid to the role of percussion
within ...
9
The Magic Egg and Other Stories
One afternoon they came in together, having met on their way to the library, and
entered into a con- versation on diapasonic logarithms, which continued during
the lady's stay in the shop. “The proper thing,” thought Mr. Tolman, “would be for ...
10
Louis Vierne: Organist of Notre-Dame Cathedral
According to The Diapason the Bach D minor was "played with vim, freedom of
style and rhythm, and a rather orchestral tone color, quite different from the '
diapasonic' churchly quality usually heard," and the Bach chorales had "little
dynamic ...