Cameron Younis, research funding officer, Liverpool Hope University Musical memories DAVID CHARTERS' featured focus on footwear put me in
musical mode (My City, March 23).
We get our
musical mode on as we tackle this week, the tunes from "The Greatest Showman." The movie is about Phineas Taylor "P.T."
And, in the
musical mode: collections of music boxes, music stands to hold sheets of music or copy cards or small home or cooking accessories, a metronome to suggest a timely move in cooking or baking, score sheets to play up a black and white sonata for spring.
Its
musical mode near to many South Asian classical Ragas but it's identify and musical demonstration entirely different.
In one strategy, "the diegesis' realism is subordinated to the
musical mode" and in the other "the musical universe is subordinated to the diegesis' realism" (161).
Big announcement from the company: It is switching to
musical mode in June by staging By Jeeves, Ayckbourn's stage adaptation of PG Wodehouse's classic Bertie Wooster stories with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
"Longa," named after a
musical mode that originates from the Ottoman Empire but since absorbed into the Arabic tradition, was so unashamedly joyous it seemed a shame to be sitting passively in one's seat.
"Nothing would move us/ To rise above just being cruel." Harmony for the Girls, then, isn't just a
musical mode but a political commitment as well.
Having made the move more than a decade ago into a contemporary
musical mode, the legendary singer still has the pipes, the electricity, and the audiences that keep him going and going year after year.
When the show does transport in traditional
musical mode, the actress is its primary vehicle.
From the last comes the exquisite 'Kakubha Ragini', an illustration of an Indian
musical mode, not seen in public since it was exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1949-50.
musical mode - any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave