Too many early scenes that are supposed to be taut and acidly funny are instead blowsy and overblown; humor is a delicate instrument, and here it is pasted on too roughly, like a campaign poster hurriedly slapped onto a street sign.
**Providers (n = 45) completed both the hip and knee instruments and the distributions here combine their responses.
And in "Dinah and Nick's Love Song" (1970), composed for a friend's wedding, and performed on Sunday morning, Mr. Birtwistle provides sublimely lyrical themes for three unspecified melody instruments (oboes here) and harp.
Qualitative research would be required to further investigate the above hypotheses, as the survey instruments and study design used here are limited.
The study should encompass different regions and cultures and utilize the instruments discussed here.
And here with this instrument, you also have something called pitch bend.
Mr. Sankaran and Mr. Rosenboom collaborated in two works, "Layagnanam" (1990), for mrdangam and computer music system, and Mr. Rosenboom's "Is Art Is" (1974), for virtually any combination of instruments, played here on piano and mrdangam.
Mr. Lovano keeps changing horns, from the tenor to the clarinetlike tarogato and the double-soprano aulochrome; other musicians pick up percussion instruments here and there.
His score for "Hindenburg" is unusually short-breathed and constrained; it sounds like fragments from a work in progress, using a language that adds little to his recent "Proverb" (where the voices are concerned) or his many more vigorous and engaging constructions for instruments (here percussion and string quartet).
THE Murtogh D. Guinness Collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata at the Morris Museum here received national attention after Martin Scorsese's film "Hugo," which appeared last November.
