On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

Those three other great activities of the Persians, the bath, the teahouse, and the zur khaneh ( the latter a kind of club in which a leader and a group of men in an octagonal pit move through a rite of calisthenics, dance, chanted poetry, and music ), do not take place in buildings to which entrance tickets are sold, but some of them occupy splendid examples of Persian domestic architecture: long, domed, chalk-white rooms with daises of turquoise tile, their end walls cut through to the orchards and the sky by open arches.

Here in these little rooms -- or stages arched open to the sky and river -- they choose a few lines out of the hundreds they may know and sing them according to one of the modes into which Persian music is divided.

The music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg, has molded his group into a prominent musical organization, which is his life.

`` There was always and at all times a contemporary music and it expresses the era in which it was created.

The music which Lautner has composed for this episode is for the most part `` rather pretty and perfectly banal ''.

the miraculous way in which music, revelation and death are associated in a single instant -- all this seems a triumph of art, a rather desperate art, in itself ; ;

Patchen does read some of his earlier works to music, but he has written an entire book of short poems which seem to be especially suited for reading with jazz.

Certainly, it is the traditional clarity of his music which has endeared him to the Western World -- not his experimentations.

If one characteristic distinguishes Boris Godunov, it is the consistency with which every person on the stage -- including the chorus -- comes alive in the music.

We are looking inside the atom and seeing there a universe which is not material but something beyond the material, a universe that in a word is not matter but music.

Certainly not in Orchestra Hall where he has played countless recitals, and where Thursday night he celebrated his 20th season with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, playing the Brahms Concerto with his own slashing, demon-ridden cadenza melting into the high, pale, pure and lovely song with which a violinist unlocks the heart of the music, or forever finds it closed.

There was in the Brahms none of the mysterious and marvelous alchemy by which a great conductor can bring soloist, orchestra and music to ultimate fusion.

But he weighted the Eighth Symphony, at times, with a shuddering subjectivity which seemed considerably at odds with the music.

She had, of course, been exposed to and enjoyed a music appreciation course which had included the better known classical works such as `` Tristan und Isolde '', `` Candide '', `` Oklahoma '', `` Nozze de Figaro '', the atomic age singers, Eileen Farrell, Elvis Presley and Geraldine Todd, as well as the curious rhythmic progressions of the Venusians, Capellan visual chromatics and the sonic concerti of the Altairians.

The audience, according to Edward Cushing, responded with " a demonstration of enthusiasm impressively genuine in contrast to the conventional applause which new music, good and bad, ordinarily arouses.

Cultural anthropology also covers economic and political organization, law and conflict resolution, patterns of consumption and exchange, material culture, technology, infrastructure, gender relations, ethnicity, childrearing and socialization, religion, myth, symbols, values, etiquette, worldview, sports, music, nutrition, recreation, games, food, festivals, and language ( which is also the object of study in linguistic anthropology ).

An African influence is evident in music and dance, and is moulding the way in which Portuguese is spoken, but is almost disappearing from the vocabulary.

Angst, in contemporary connotative use, most often describes the intense frustration and other emotions of teenagers and the mood of the music and art with which they identify in accordance with adult stereotype.

He envisaged instruments in which the French late-romantic full-organ sound should work integrally with the English and German romantic reed pipes, and with the classical Alsace Silbermann organ resources and baroque flue pipes, all in registers regulated ( by stops ) to access distinct voices in fugue or counterpoint capable of combination without loss of distinctness: different voices singing together in the same music.

Mozi advocated frugality, condemning the Confucian emphasis on ritual and music, which he denounced as extravagant.

Catching the impulse from Hilary and confirmed in it by the success of Arian psalmody, Ambrose composed several original hymns as well, four of which still survive, along with music which may not have changed too much from the original melodies.

He wrote extensively on proportions in music, and on the three different subjective levels on which plainchant could work on the human soul: purging of the impure ; illumination leading to contemplation ; and nourishing perfection through contemplation.

Bartók's music reflects two trends that dramatically changed the sound of music in the 20th century: the breakdown of the diatonic system of harmony that had served composers for the previous two hundred years ( Griffiths 1978, 7 ); and the revival of nationalism as a source for musical inspiration, a trend that began with Mikhail Glinka and Antonín Dvořák in the last half of the 19th century ( Einstein 1947, 332 ).

The music for the fairies reflects Wagner's style, and the score uses leitmotifs, including a distinctive four-note theme associated with the character of Iolanthe.

However, it strongly reflects Pound's interest in poems written to be sung to music, such as those by the troubadours and Guido Cavalcanti.

The modern music history of Trinidad and Tobago reflects the ethnic groups which form the current culture — French, Spanish, British, the African and New World nations from which the African population derives, and subsequent immigration from Asia and India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Power trio music often reflects a blues or jazz influence, since these two types of music invite improvisation.

Their music reflects a wide range of influences, including country music, psychedelic rock, and traditional Irish folk music, but is generally classified as hard rock or sometimes heavy metal.

The music of the United States reflects the country's multi-ethnic population through a diverse array of styles.

Aside from the album title paying homage to Horn's hit single with The Buggles back in 1979, it also reflects Horn and Williams ' mutual disdain for the ongoing crop of reality television and music contest programmes in the UK and elsewhere.

Poster for the premiere of Le pardon de Ploërmel ( Dinorah ) All of his significant music is for the voice ( opera and songs ) and this reflects his detailed grounding in Italian opera.

The team ’ s logo, which was used from 1978 to 1997, reflects the city's association with the country music industry.

This reflects Schenker's belief that the deep, long – range structure of a piece of music has no particular rhythm.

This means that there is no mechanical procedure for arriving at an analysis for a given piece of music ; rather, the analysis reflects the musical intuitions of the analyst.

In Clapham, The Grand, originally the 1900 ' Grand Palace of Varieties ', has been restored, but its interior reflects its modern use as a music venue and nightclub.

Indonesian regional folk pop musics reflects the diversity of Indonesian culture and Indonesian ethicity, mostly use local languages and a mix of western and regional style music and instruments.

Transylvania has been historically and culturally more linked to Central European countries than Southeastern Europe, and its music reflects those influences.

In common with the music traditions of other Asian cultures, such as Persia and India, one strand of traditional Chinese music consists of a repertoire of traditional melodies with tempo and ornamentation varying according to the mood of the instrumentalist, the audience, and their reaction to what is being played, the same melody can be used to serve many different roles be it merry, melancholic or martial ( this can be glimpsed in the love theme of the Butterfly Lovers ' Violin Concerto where the same melody at different points in the lover's story reflects elation, turbulence and dejection ).

The melancholy tone of the music reflects the themes of Finnish folk poetry ; Finnish tango is almost always in a minor key.

The major difference between a calypsonian and a calypso singer is that a true calypsonian writes his / her own material, and sings topical music that reflects the reality of the community, an example being Atilla the Hun, whereas a calypso singer will tend to sing standards, an example being Ritchie Delamore.

His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era.