He makes no attempt to explain musical terms: readers who do not know what a "diatonic, homophonic pronouncement of a frottola rhythm" is will be none the wiser after reading about it here.
For maybe $1 or nothing, you can turn your phone into a barcode reader, musical instrument, carpenter's level, video-editing station, game machine or just about anything else.
He was a musical, dramatic, moving reader of his own poetry, and, when he had the chance, he liked to read aloud the poetry of others: John Clare and Keats especially, and Whitman, and once I had the pleasure of hearing him read to an audience one of my own poems, which was — there's no other word for it — thrilling.
(Ages 3 to 8) From the beginning of "Subway," Anastasia Suen's rhythmic, musical language prepares readers for a rollicking ride.
Recently on the ArtsBeat blog, Mary Anna Dennard, the author of "I Got In!: The Ultimate College Audition Guide for Acting and Musical Theater," answered readers' questions about how to find the right program, what schools are looking for and whether to spend big bucks on an education that can't guarantee work.
Hopper now writes for the Chicago Reader, provides musical assistance to NPR's "This American Life," and recently released a book titled, "The Girls Guide to Rocking," which encourages young women to start their own bands.
Ilya Rosenberg, Ken Perlin and a small team of computer scientists from New York University's Media Research Lab hope to bring a new kind of multitouch to items as diverse as new e-readers and musical instruments with their new company, Touchco.
Most pleasing for devout Thatcherites such as myself, however, is that Margaret changed everything in that glorious decade the 1980s to the beauteous, musical sound of Guardian readers' teeth-gnashing.
It turns out that dozens of these strips, absorbed in silence by the reader, actually have musical soundtracks, which you can enjoy in tandem with the strips in an exhibition at the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, California.
In brief, I often find it helpful to pair a morsel of technical vocabulary with a metaphorical turn of phrase that will make sense to a reader unversed in musical jargon.
