Drumming

He’s looking at a screen showing the American planes advancing across the surface of the earth, and the targets in Russia are flashing. He looks exhausted. His collar is undone, his tie is loose and he is sweating. During the conversation, he is drumming his fingers on the desk with impatience and exasperation. At the same time, he is trying to smile in order to remain polite. 5 Developing your comprehension of the implicit Activity 13 Number of speakers Identity of speakers Subject of conversation

relationship with doctors, Frau Schwartz told us that the solo GP sent patients birthday cards, hailed the Schwartzs as friends in the street, and always asked about the family in consultations: he could not be less paternalistic. Also (partially by way of drumming-up business she suggested) he invited patients to lectures on certain topics—the most recent was on FRANCE AND GERMANY: THE CONSUMER’S VIEW 19 osteopathy. These events would take place in a bar, and patients would listen to a presentation

Quartet no. 4 in C Minor, op. 18 (1799), movement 3, opening. C. Ragtime is a synthesis of vastly different elements, some of western European origin and some of West African origin. 1. In ragtime, the complex multiple rhythmic layers of West African drumming are transferred to the piano, with a march-like, on-the-beat left hand of the pianist supporting an off-the-beat, syncopated right hand layered atop. 2. The following excerpt illustrates syncopation used as an accent or series of unpatterned accents

domaine du transitaire. Cependant au-dessous de trois tonnes, il est peu réaliste d’espérer obtenir un prix, sauf à faire valoir la régularité des importations et le tonnage sur l’année. 25 BP Fluides 1. Coûts d'enfûtage pour le produit Exolane (drumming cost) By drums (par fût) Au Havre Drum cost (enfûtage) Handling (manutention) Cap seals Stickers Palette Cost by drum Différence en € À Singapour 19,45 € 18,03 USD 4,21 € 2,54 USD 0,17 USD 0,83 € 4,16 28,65 € 5

The art box Gibbons, Gail. New York, : Holiday House, c1998. J702.8 GIBBONS Describes the many different kinds of tools and supplies which artists use to produce their work. STANDARD # = 0823413861. STANDARD # = 9780823413867. Art of bongo drumming Salloum, Trevor K. Pacific, Mo. : Mel Bay Publications, 2006. 786.95 ARTOF "The DVD is packed with informative chapters on history, selection, positioning, strokes, practice tips/exercises, clave, martillo, repiques/fills, bongo bell, soloing

where everyone was because I cast out that other sense of mine and felt for their brains. Vampires register as holes to me, almost black spots in the atmosphere. It’s negative tracking. No one spoke, and the only noise was the pelting of the rain drumming on the cars. I couldn’t hear an oncoming vehicle. “Hi, Bruno,” I called, and I sounded perky in a crazy way. “Who’s your buddy?” I walked over to him. Across the median, a car whizzed by going west. If the driver caught a glimpse of us, it probably

chest to use as a headboard for their bed and to hold the heat. All the while it continued to rain. He set pails under the downspouts at the housecorners to catch fresh water off the old standing-seam metal roof and at night he could hear the rain drumming in the upper rooms and dripping through the house. They rummaged through the outbuildings for anything of use. He found a wheelbarrow and pulled it out and tipped it over and turned the wheel slowly, examining the tire. The rubber was glazed

believes he personally would be nothing if it were not for music. 296 • U N IT 13 CORRIGÉ DE LA FICHE DU WORKBOOK (P. 79) 1 a. “drumming” (l. 8) + “drums” (l. 22) b. “storm” (l. 9) c. “warrior” (l. 23) 2 Pleasant natural sounds: “cicadas in the tropical night” (l. 4) + “the sea is music” (l. 5) + “the wind is music” (l. 6) Discordant natural sounds: “the rain drumming on the roof” (l. 8) + “the storm raging in the sky” (l. 9) 3 a) - infancy: “A baby is born, and music puts him to sleep.” (l.

familiar face, held up a bottle, which, being accepted with a nod, he sent it out with a glass. This established a sort of fraternity with the street. In the next room the children were unmanageable. They had taken possession of a saucepan and were drumming on it with spoons. Mamma Coupeau and Father Bru were talking earnestly. The old man was speaking of his two sons who had died in the Crimea. Ah, had they but lived, he would have had bread to eat in his old age! Mme Coupeau, whose tongue was a little

while he gathered and ate the choicest fruits. This went on all day, and even at night, when I threw myself down half dead with weariness, the terrible old man held on tight to my neck, nor did he fail to greet the first glimmer of morning light by drumming upon me with his heels, until I perforce awoke and resumed my dreary march with rage and bitterness in my heart. It happened one day that I passed a tree under which lay several dry gourds, and catching one up I amused myself with scooping out its