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Armagnac for Winter Warmth
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With measurable snowfalls fresh in our minds and winter-like
temperatures a reality, we can no longer delude ourselves -- it's
February. But the cold weather is also an invitation to slip into
something cozy and snuggle with a good book and a bit of Armagnac.
Armagnac has been warming the souls and bellies of the French
since medieval times. The most famous of the Three Musketeers,
d'Artagnan, is said to have been a lover of Armagnac. Those who know
Gascony would say that the men and women of that area could have made
no other brandy except that robust, richly scented and mouth-filling ...
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Early polyphony to 1300. (Sound Recording Reviews).
Magazine article from: Notes
; ...music was chant--a single melodic line. Polyphony began when a second melodic line was added to...elaboration of the harmonic aspect of music. EARLIEST POLYPHONY The earliest notated polyphony is found in theoretical treatises, Musica enchiriadis...
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The Oldest Extant Part Music and the Origin of Western Polyphony, 2 vols.
Magazine article from: Notes
; ...Part Music and the Origins of Western Polyphony is the latest in Hendrik van der Werf...volume I consider the repertory of early polyphony in a variety of broad historical and...of St. Martial, or "Aquitainian" polyphony (British Library Add. 36 881; Paris...
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Plainsong in the Age of Polyphony.
Magazine article from: Notes
; ...centuries after the proliferation of sacred polyphony. Most of the essays explore, albeit...the relationship between plainchant and polyphony to the extent that it is apparent from...essays, John Caldwell's "Plainsong and Polyphony, 1250--1550," surveys the state...
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The Polyphony of Saint Martial and Santiago de Compostela, 2 vols.
Magazine article from: Notes
; ...repertory of the Magnus liber organi and the polyphony that preceded it. Many specialists saw...Karp's approach in his imposing The Polyphony of Saint Martial and Santiago de Compostela...340-62; Leo Treitler's "The Polyphony of St. Martial," Journal of the American...
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Taiwanese Inventors Develop Polyphony Number Determination Method
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...Yuan of Dali, Taiwan, have developed a polyphony number changing method. According to...of dynamically determining a maximum polyphony number is used in an electronic device...the operation mode. Then, a maximum polyphony number is determined according to a constant...
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Polyphony St John's Smith Square, London
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...English pastoralism. But that crack choir Polyphony, conducted by its founder, Stephen...in concert to a shortened version of Polyphony's newly released CD (of the same name...harmonic environment of 20th-century polyphony can be pretty lush, parallel vocal lines...
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A Polyphonic Conversation with New York Polyphony
Magazine article from: Fanfare
; New York Polyphony is a group of four singers (Scott Dispensa...the members of what became New York Polyphony had met some years ago and broached...light music. As mentioned, New York Polyphony doesn't restrict itself to repertoire...
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Polyphony in Belfast
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...Singers in a programme of Renaissance polyphony, which had been chosen, without a hint...when asked, and whose interest in polyphony inevitably marks them out as marginal...the modern situation, nothing beats polyphony. It was ideal fare for a city finding...
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Polyphony
Magazine article from: The American Music Teacher
; ...to: American Music Teacher, Attn: Polyphony; 441 Vine St., Ste. 505, Cincinnati...or e-mail to amt@mtna.org. This Polyphony column appears in two parts. The first...questions and feedback from the April/May Polyphony column on "Art as Process." In it...
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Polyphony.(Professional Resources)
Magazine article from: American Music Teacher
; This Polyphony column appears in two parts. The first...questions and feedback from the April/May Polyphony column on "Art as Process." In it...Life In response to the April/May 2004 Polyphony column, I received the following letter...
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