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How Normal Is Normal The Met Department has forecast yet another normal monsoon. But that is no cause for celebration, if the past few years' experience is anything to go by. Here's why normal is not always normal.
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In a couple of days from now, farmers around the country will
begin to look skywards for signs of the first rains. So will the
officials of the India Meteorological Department (IMD). For even
though the IMD has forecast a normal monsoon this year-its 18th
consecutive "normal" forecast-the past three years' record has cast a
shadow over the credibility of its predictions.
In 2002 and 2004, despite the Met Department's prediction of
normal monsoons, the rains turned out to be both deficient and
delayed in many regions. This year officials have been cautious. They
have already predicted a week's ...
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CLEF'S NOTES
News Wire article from: United Press International
; ...The Daily Classical Music Column from United Press International. Today is January 15th. ___ GIOVANNI SAMMARTINI Giovanni Battista Sammartini, who was born around 1700, died in Milan on this day in 1775. Sammartini and his brother Giuseppe...
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A Symphonic Trip to the Beginning
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...heard a Stamitz symphony or a Sammartini symphony in the Kennedy Center...of the composers he cited: Giovanni Battista Sammartini (circa 1700-1775) and Johann...symphonies and at least 68 of Sammartini's have survived; some of...
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Music in European Capitals: The Galant Style 1720-1780.(Historical and Analytical Studies)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Notes
; ...the usual suspects (e.g. Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Johann Stamitz, etc.) but...and Johann Christian Bach, Giovanni Paisiello, and Luigi Boccherini...things inevitably do not fit. Sammartini, for example, who must figure...
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THE RISE OF THE NORTH ITALIAN VIOLIN CONCERTO: 1690-1740, VOL. 3
Magazine article from: Fanfare
; ...Concerto in F, op. 4/12. SAMMARTINI Concerto in E[musical flat...generation, Pietro Locatelli, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, and Giuseppe Tartini. Although...well as a life companion. Sammartini's two-movement Concerto...
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 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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A musical tour of Europe
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
; ...Bach, George Frideric Handel, Marin Marais, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Jean-Philippe Rameau and Padre Antonio Soler...Soler], German [Bach and Handel] and Italian [Sammartini]. Their styles have some variety to them, and...
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The Sounds of Milan, 1585-1650.(Early Music)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Notes
; ...Milan between the ages of Josquin Desprez and Giovanni Battista Sammartini is terra incognita. Perhaps surprisingly, the...period, including the diminution treatises by Giovanni Battista Bovicelli (Regole, passaggi di musica, madrigali...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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CHAMBER MUSIC 'DETECTIVE' OPENS SERIES.(Weekend)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
; ...same reason. Newell's interest in the work of Giovanni Battista Sammartini led to his discovery of works by Gaetano Brunetti...along with Tomaso Albinoni, Luigi Boccherini, Giovanni Bononcini, Johann Rosenmuller and Bach. The Brunetti...
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Keyboard Concertos: in D, op. 13/2; in B[musical flat], op. 13/4; Keyboard Concertos: in A, YC91; in E[musical flat], YC90
Magazine article from: Fanfare
; ...Italy studying first with Padre Martini and then Giovanni Battista Sammartini, that Mozart absorbed the Italianate style. After...disc are clear precursors to the piano concertos of Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816) which, in turn, are...
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Convention in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Music: Essays in Honor of Leonard G. Ratner.
Magazine article from: Notes
; ...Classic Sonata Form" cites prominent examples of unstable harmonic procedure in instrumental expositions from Giovanni Battista Sammartini and Antonio Brioschi through Beethoven. Her examples call attention to the disparity between simplified pedagogical...
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SUZY.
Magazine article from: WWD
; ...like uccelli, were here to present the American premiere of "Memet," an 18th-century chamber opera by Giovanni Battista Sammartini at the Metropolitan Museum's Temple of Dendur to the delight of music lovers from all over. The adorable...
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