THE cryptic title of Richard S. Warren's history of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, "Begins With the Oboe," refers to the note A that the principal oboist of a symphony orchestra traditionally sounds to give the other players concert pitch.
What's different now is that it's distinctively uptempo – Estelle, Flor Rida, Mary J Blige are all coming out with singles that are 150-160bpm, whish is traditionally the sound of a club house record.
Like Bubber Miley, Nanton extensively used rough-edged, slurred and vocalised sounds, which wrenched the music away from the traditionally "sweet" sounds of a conventional dance band.
He is at the forefront of an emergent style loosely called Afrobeats by some, a mélange of hip-hop, R&B and other traditionally urban sounds with elements that hark back to older African styles.
It's come as a shock to the Gewandhaus players, who are used to playing Beethoven with all the resources of their traditionally rich, dark sound.
Final consonants were deleted, with the exception of -m, which developed to an -ṃ sound (traditionally pronounced as ŋ, a sound like that of the ng in sing) before which a vowel was shortened (Pāli bhāriyaṃ 'wife'; Sanskrit bhāryām).
Inexplicably, reports suggest that physicists have not yet begun the process of using the technology to build actual lightsaber-style weapons, nor have they perfected the THHHHHHWWWWOM! sound traditionally manifested when duelling Jedis do battle.
Williamson (2003, p. 23) and Masten (2000) pointed out that the agrifood sector traditionally provides a sound example of puzzling phenomena able to challenge mainstream theory.
Interestingly, the music soundtracking the night wasn't a sound traditionally associated with twerking.
