Sentences with phrase «about fugues»

But you spoke beautiful English, and I remember we talked about Bach because you were very cultured and I'd had a musical theory class in the spring and so I said a few things about fugues.

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By the use of scientific methods we can be told accurately and completely about the sound produced in the playing of a Beethoven sonata or a Bach fugue.

The movie's focus is on the almost musical dialogue of Amanda and Lily as they bounce viewpoints about, like the music of Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C - Minor.

Even the broad evocations that the shapes draw out - the entire list above was the majority of my notes on the show; I wandered in a fugue, cataloging shapes as if sea creatures - demonstrate something essential and primal about art.

As the performers moved about the space in a random pattern of loose choreography, they sang the lines: «Who say you have to be a dead dog... One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do... And it comes down, it comes down, well it comes down, and it comes down, it comes it comes... Scores of blood and fire and freeways, I am going to get my share... One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do... Who say you have to be a dead dog...» Handling each other's bodies with as much regard as the set's props, the performers alternate between a cappella and in - the - round chorus, fugue and eventually total discordance, rising as high as Math Bass as she climbs to the top of the ladder supported by her full cast in order to smash the plant and end the performance.

That work creates a fugue from three narratives chronicling the effects of the global economic crash: one about a successful photographer in Iceland who loses everything in the downturn, one about a hedge - fund art collector in London who doesn't have much to worry about, and one about a housekeeper in Dubai who is trapped in an immaculate apartment in the middle of the desert.

On my trip to London on what must be the hottest day of the year so far, even though it's now about 7 o'clock in the evening it's still really warm and here I am wearing a suit, carrying luggage and chasing across the capital to visit Westminster Library, to see collages by John Bunker in the show Six Fugues, curated by Sam Cornish.

Whilst allusions to fugue are only occasionally found in nineteenth century writings about art, they abound in the early twentieth century, the dawn of abstraction.