(Vocal/instrumental group, 1978–93, 1997–present) A post-punk quartet originating in Liverpool’s thriving late 1970s new wave scene, comprising Ian McCulloch (vocals), Will Sergeant (guitar), Les Pattinson (bass) and Pete DeFreitas (drums). Career highlights include the moodily atmospheric 1980 debut Crocodiles and the lushly epic Ocean Rain (1984), but mainstream acceptance eluded them and the band split up in 1988 ...
marimba is a percussion instrument. The percussionist strikes a row (or two rows) of wooden blocks – laid out like a keyboard – beneath which are attached a series of echo chambers that resonate the sound. The compass of the instrument varies, but generally covers three or four chromatic octaves from the C below middle C. Music written for this ...
Lutheran North Germany grew bigger, but Italian, French and South German organs built up a wider range of ‘colours’ – pipes imitating stringed instruments, percussion stops, echo departments and other effects. In fact, the organ was growing all round. Instruments from the late Baroque period sometimes have five manuals or 60 stops. In addition to these ...
In 1905, and probably for several decades before that, there were more pianos in the United States than there were bathtubs. In Europe, throughout the nineteenth century, piano sales increased at a greater rate than the population. English, French and German makers dispatched veritable armies of pianos to every corner of the Earth. It was the ...
under the chin impractical; a compromise was reached, but even so the size of the instrument makes it difficult to hold. Just as the double bass originally tended to echo the cello line, the viola had much the same role, shadowing the violins or even the bass; there are still few concertos or sonatas for the viola – ...
‘The Story of the Soul and the Body’ Premiered: 1600, Rome Libretto by Agostino Manni and Dorisio Isorelli Prologue The figures of Avveduto and Prudenzio (both mean ‘Prudence’) discuss at length the various facets of human nature and appeal to the audience to learn from what they will see in this allegorical opera. Act I The character Tempo (Time) presents ...
than seeking to dominate; ‘She’s Lost Control’ is one example among many. Hailed as a classic by the critics, the album made an immediate impact on emerging bands like Echo & The Bunnymen, the Cure and U2. More recently, Joy Division’s influence can be heard on Editors and Interpol. Closer (1980) refined Joy Division’s sound into a more ...
some demos. Petty had a well-equipped operation. As at Sun Studio in Memphis there was no time-limit on sessions, and as at Sun, Petty had developed his own echo technology. Buddy had apparently been talking about their future fame, and Allison, quoting from the recent film, The Searchers, had answered with the catchphrase of John ...
to a French revision of Alceste (1777) and the noble Iphigénie en Tauride (1779); this, his greatest success in Paris, was quickly followed by his greatest failure, Echo et Narcisse (1779). Gluck finally returned to Vienna in 1779; he wrote some songs and made some revisions to his operas. But with uncertain health, and no pressing need ...
of all my works’, and then by the opera many regard as his supreme masterpiece, Iphigénie en Tauride (‘Iphigenia in Tauris’, 1779). Gluck’s final French opera, the pastoral Echo et Narcisse (‘Echo and Narcissus’, 1779), was a failure. This was partly because of squabbling Parisian claques; a dispute had long raged between supporters of Gluck and those of rival ...
10 success of ‘Rebel Rouser’, the first of a string of similar hits. Eddy achieved his unique twangy guitar sound by bending the bass strings and using a combination of echo chamber and tremolo arm. The twang evoked the sound of hot-rod engines revving up and had echoes of the Wild West. Eddy credited Hazelwood with creating the big sound on ...
the first in a string of dancefloor standards, which included ‘September’, ‘Fantasy’, ‘After The Love Has Gone’ and ‘Boogie Wonderland’. Styles & Forms | Seventies | Rock Personalities | Echo & The Bunnymen | Seventies | Rock ...
Nicholas (guitar, vocals), Taka Hirose (bass) and Mark Richardson (drums, left 2009) – formed in London, but are a Welsh/Japanese/English hybrid. It was not until third album Echo Park (2001) that their brand of bombastic, yelping yet highly singalong rock was noticed by the masses. The suicide of first drummer Jon Lee in early 2002 cast a ...
is Adriana Lecouvreur (1902) and this piece does not fit the verismo style; its heroine is a famous eighteenth-century actress, jealously murdered with a poisoned bunch of violets. Both echo Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) in style, with an almost cinematic sense of timing and with striking stage pictures. Recommended Recording: Adriana Lecouvreur, soloists, Santa Cecilia Academy Chorus and ...
was only 17, acutely conveys the girl’s misery, the spinning-wheel figure in the accompaniment coming to a dramatic halt as Gretchen recalls her lover’s kiss. ‘Heidenröslein’, with its echo of Mozart’s Magic Flute, has the simplicity of a folksong. In ‘Erlkönig’ (‘The Erl King’), relentless triplets in the piano brilliantly depict the father’s desperate ride through the night. ...
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