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A History of Performing Pitch: The Story of "A".(Book Review)
By Bruce Haynes. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 9002. [lvi, 578 p. ISBN 0-8108-4185-1. $80.] Illustrations, graphs, bibliography, index.
The relationship of musical composition and performance to the notion of an absolute pitch standard is one that is relatively recent in Western musical culture. For much of history, such reference standards were unnecessary, essentially because art music was synonymous with vocal music, and singers were free to set relative and comfortable ranges for themselves. By around the mid-sixteenth century, genres of composition were evolving that brought together unprecedented combinations of voices with instruments of fixed pitch. While ...
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...product line while delivering the quality products for which Nu-kote has developed an international reputation," said Bruce Haynes, Managing Director of Columbia Pelikan. Nu-kote manages a global portfolio of companies in the imaging supplies industry...
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...ignoring ``the vast array of issues that are more relevant to the black community,'' says Hunter College sociologist Bruce Haynes. ``Generally, unless an issue is sensational _ crack mothers, violent murders _ there's no coverage in the mainstream...
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...parents, Charles and Mary Stites Haynes of Portland, Maine; two brothers, Norman Haynes of Cumberland Center, Maine, and Bruce Haynes of East Hartland, Conn.; and three sisters, Suzanne Haynes and Nancy Bartlett, both of Portland, Maine, and Shirley...
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...allowing start-ups to target specific non-English-speaking demographics in the US more cost-effectively, says Bruce Haynes, PanAmSat's senior VP of corporate development strategy. "The penetration of foreigners in the US is front-page status...
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