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And the how was harmony, stacking up the pitches to form chords.
And the chords, it turned out, were capable of representing incredible varieties of emotions.
And the basic chords were the ones we still have with us, the triads, either the major one, which we think is happy, or the minor one, which we perceive as sad.
But what's the actual difference between these two chords?
(Musical chords) Yeah, Nicole Kidman sounds good.
Maria was in a car accident, and she woke up on her 16th birthday to the news that she was a complete quadriplegic, had no movement from the neck down, had damage to her vocal chords, and she couldn't talk.
"The vocal chords will be eliminated by a process of evolution as was the tail of man when he came from the ape."
A culture which is top-down, owned, where the vocal chords of the millions have been lost.
Digital technology is the opportunity for the revival of these vocal chords that he spoke so passionately to Congress about.
This is followed almost immediately by the sudden closure of the vocal chords and the opening between them, which is called the glottis.
The movement of the diaphragm initiates a sudden intake of air, but the closure of the vocal chords stops it from entering the wind pipe and reaching the lungs.
Then there's this: "Love you, love your magazine, but can you please stop writing massive numbers as text?" [two and a half million ...] No. (Laughter) One last cri de coeur from a spelling stickler: ["Those long stringy things are vocal cords, not chords."]
And they create beautiful chords and patterns.
I didn't have any chords to structure myself, or a rhythm or a beat to know the tempo.
Then there are the hoary movie stereotypes -- prostitutes with hearts of gold, the kid who can't shoot straight, the city slicker new to the wild West, the sage brush shimmering on a summer afternoon with a musical accompaniment in major chords.
Well, it's beautiful for the first two minutes, but when the same four chords are repeated non-stop for 90 minutes it gets more than a little irritating.
Seeing Christopher Lee in a film filled with 70s hip lingo and electric guitar chords and laughable rock music just seemed beyond stupid.
Dieter and Herzog are combined and connected through a mental maze that has been transformed into a single straight hallway which the walls have been plastered with images created by one mans characterization of himself by the vibrations of his own vocal chords.
I know Jack Gold's work, of course, and one would expect no more from him than this meticulous detail; but it went far beyond the accurate representation of the facts and touched deep chords about human responses and the only half-uttered value judgements of those years.
Clanging and suspenseful chords can be heard when nothing happens.
The synthesized music was occasionally effective but surely deeper chords would have created an ominous atmosphere.
Wayne Coyne's music is weird, yes-- even chaotic, but it is carefully put together and endlessly tweaked, elevating the raw elements of songwriting (guitar chords, sung melody) into a mesmerizing digital orchestra of sorts.
Even Frog strains his vocal chords with "She Works Third Tub At The Laundry".
This film remains alive in my memory in the form of its emotional impressions (the term "bittersweet" may be overused here but is completely appropriate) as well as the final chords of the soundtrack, which darkly underline the story's conclusion.
And then there is that totally inappropriate score by Michael Nyman swamping scenes of everyday life with a spurious pseudo-classical muzak, banal lyrical lines accompanied by throbbing repeated chords.
And next time hire a composer who knows that writing original film music is more than trying to create suspense by using diminished chords or pounding low piano keys.
Also, while Brad Pitt is gorgeous to look at, and a very likable movie star, his performance somehow left me a little cold - it doesn't hit any deep emotional chords, and while you could praise him for being subtle, he just doesn't have the everyman quality, that sense of human anguish anyone can relate to, that someone like Will Smith does.
But Obama – who had displayed a photograph of Mahatma Gandhi in his Senate office, carried a locket of the Hindu god Hanuman, and spoke often of his desire to build a “close strategic partnership” with India –struck the right symbolic chords in New Delhi and won over the fractious parliament.
While outgoing President Hu Jintao and PremierWen Jiabao struck reformist chords in public statements and in China’s 12th Five-Year Plan, many inside China – including, reportedly, Jiang – are disappointed.
Both the feminist chants and the primitive chords were secondary to the spectacle.