10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «JIGLIKE»
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When you strip the fly through the water, it darts forward, then drops rapidly due
to its weighted eyes — an action best described as jiglike. I asked Clouser if his
design was really just a simple jig. "No, it's a fly," he says. "You can't really work a
...
These lived together in not so perfect harmony with a few American items, such
as the faux leather couches creating a corner at the rosewood statue of an Indian
classical dancer in a jiglike pose, part of her shoulder chipped from shipping, ...
Tanuja Desai Hidier, 2010
3
Music for More than One Piano: An Annotated Guide
Impetuoso: declamatory opening punctuated with octaves and running octotonic
figures, leads to Grazioso: 9/8. more lyric than lilting; moves to Marcia: marcato.
pompous and jiglike; a piu vivo buoys up the conclusion. The piece is an ...
The most enjoyable movement is the jiglike % finale typical of Italian symphonies,
in which Mozart contrasts lively diatonic matter with chromaticism. The opening of
the second symphony 19) is livelier in its figuration, but perhaps as an ...
5
South American Cinema: A Critical Filmography, 1915-1994
Cinematographer Adelqui Camusso, who studied in Rome with Birri, shot the film
in functional, static medium shots, held togetherby arecurring chamamé,a jiglike
accordion air popular in northern Argentina. When the film workers' union ...
Timothy Barnard, Peter Rist, 2010
6
Slaves of Sleep & the Masters of Sleep
Hop is slang for opium. hornpipe: a lively jiglike dance, performed usually by one
person and traditionally a favorite of sailors. Named for the sailor's instrument
upon which the dance music was originally played. house: any enclosed
structure ...
Hat, who entertained her guests with several songs, accompanying herself on the
violin, avoided the more jaunty and jiglike airs of her repertoire and sang instead
a doleful ballad of many stanzas, the gist of which is contained in the following ...
Edith Summers Kelley, 1996
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The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry
as performed by the band appears nowhere in the sheet music, which transcribes
only the tune's several jiglike dance formations—but in the design ofits cover,
which featured sketches of a mule, a pig, a cow, a rabbit, a hen and rooster, and ...
9
Great Short Stories of the Masters
Finally, with a great crash and all kinds of shudderings and jiglike movements on
the part of the table, Leo Tolstoy visited our little group and, when asked to
identify himself by specific traits of terrene habitation, launched upon a complex ...
The terms "hoedown" and "breakdown," applied to a fast, rollicking way of playing
an accompaniment to a lively, shuffling-type of dancing, are probably also of
black origin. A jiglike dance of black origin (the juba) was accompanied by
complex ...
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «JIGLIKE»
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Dawes one of the best in festival's history
The first half finished with another Dawes original, Somewhere Home, full of lyrical harmonics, hints of old ballads and ending with a jiglike tune ... «Royal Gazette, Jun 15»
Keeping it in the family: Some St. John's Catholic Prep graduates …
Anthony M. Barzey III danced his way onto the stage, performing “the whip,” a jiglike dance popular among teens, before shaking hands with ... «Frederick News Post, May 15»
Fetch Clay, Make Man By Will Power
Physically, he inhabits the role beautifully: He's broad and lean like Ali was in the '60s, and he's got the champ's distinctive, wide-legged, jiglike ... «Washington City Paper, Oct 14»
Andrew McCormack Trio review – seductive jazz themes sound …
... brass calls and billowing piano murmurs) of an ECM session, and Pohjola neatly negotiated the jiglike skip of the ensuing Junket. «The Guardian, Jul 14»
Berkeley Rep's 'Wild Bride' is romantic, magical ride
... colorful musical with charming choreography by Etta Murfitt that some moments is jiglike or gymnastic and at other times a barefoot soft-shoe. «Marinscope Community Newspapers, Dec 11»
Music Review | Rachel Unthank and the Winterset
... sailors, and it incorporated a cappella vocal harmonies, a jiglike fiddle tune and a hymnlike singalong chorus into the robust, clattery dancing. «New York Times, Sep 08»
