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    Stanford Counterpoint (also known simply as Counterpoint) is an all-femme a cappella group from Stanford University. It is the second-oldest a cappella...
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    Gilbert and Sullivan. Stanford is also host to ten a cappella groups, including the Mendicants (Stanford's first), Counterpoint (the first all-female...
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    Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint. pp. xxi. ISBN 978-1-61902-198-3. Berry, Wendell (2013). This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems. Berkeley: Counterpoint. p. 11....
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    Shambhala Press, 1998, ISBN 978-1611807240. David Hinton, Tao Te Ching, Counterpoint Press, 2001, ISBN 978-1582431826. Chad Hansen, Laozi: Tao Te Ching on...
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  • United States. The all-male Mendicants were followed by Stanford's second a cappella group, Counterpoint, the first all-female a cappella group on the West...
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    The Stanford Fleet Street Singers (Fleet Street) is a comedy a cappella group from Stanford University. The group performs original songs and sketch comedy...
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    Charles Wood (composer) (category Pupils of Charles Villiers Stanford)
    teacher of composition, Wood "was surpassed only by Stanford himself [and] as a teacher of counterpoint and fugue he was unequalled". His pupils at Cambridge...
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  • Maria Hummel (category Stanford University faculty)
    novels: Goldenseal (Counterpoint, 2024), Lesson in Red (Counterpoint, 2021), Still Lives (Counterpoint, 2018), Motherland (Counterpoint, 2014) and Wilderness...
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    & Co., BlackRock, Koch Disruptive Technologies and Morgan Stanley's Counterpoint Global. Friedberg founded car insurance firm Metromile in 2011 and was...
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    would succeed him and continue teaching his approach to harmony and counterpoint. A highly prolific composer, his total output numbers more than 8000...
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  • vocal bass part (lower its pitch by an octave), first included on Stanford Counterpoint's 1996 album "Nomansland".[additional citation(s) needed] In 2001...
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    is an ideological inconsistency with traditional Confucian society. A counterpoint to these examples is that as time has progressed, anti-democratic rhetoric...
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  • Chicago students for start-up funding for a new conservative newspaper, Counterpoint. By 1980, the grant program had been expanded and named the Collegiate...
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    Brahms's words) "double counterpoint, canons, fugues, preludes or whatever". Bozarth notes that "products of Brahms's study of counterpoint and early music over...
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    known also as a cultural activist. Raina believes that culture is a counterpoint to the violence and terrorism around us. He has been a visiting director...
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    returns, now accompanied by a sustained bass line and emotionally charged counterpoints. In a programme note for a 1912 performance of his setting of Arthur...
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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, nicknamed "Dissonance" on account of the unusual counterpoint in its slow introduction. It is the last in the set of six quartets composed...
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  • Los Angeles magazine. His first novel, The Suitors, was published by Counterpoint Press in 2006. Reviewing it, the American Library Association named him...
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    Walford Davies (category Pupils of Charles Villiers Stanford)
    there were Hubert Parry and (for a single term) Stanford for composition, and W. S. Rockstro (counterpoint), Herbert Sharpe (piano) and Haydn Inwards (violin)...
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  • (2012). Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan. Counterpoint Press. ISBN 9781582437903. A biography of writer Richard Brautigan. McGuane...
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    the natives were of such magnitude that they soon learned the rules of counterpoint and polyphony and even the virtuous handling of the instruments. This...
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  • Page Stegner (category Stanford University alumni)
    and historian Wallace Stegner. Stegner received his B.A. in history from Stanford University in 1959, followed by a Ph.D in American literature in 1964....
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    rhythm, characterized by subtle modulations and full of syncopation and counterpoint. Bossa nova is also a well-known style of Brazilian music developed and...
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    Professor of Music at Stanford University, where he directs the Stanford Symphony Orchestra, Stanford Philharmonia, and Stanford Summer Symphony. He has...
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  • Leeds Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Thomas Leech. Steve Reich Electric Counterpoint (3rd mvt) Performer: Sean Shibe. Leos Janáček Glagolitic Mass (Introduction)...
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  • William Hurlstone (category Pupils of Charles Villiers Stanford)
    exquisite, albeit small, body of work. His teacher Sir Charles Villiers Stanford considered him the most talented of his pupils, above Ralph Vaughan Williams...
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    Sidney Robertson Cowell (category Stanford University alumni)
    Park, California from 1926 to 1932. During that period, she studied counterpoint and analysis with Ernest Bloch and the music of non-European cultures...
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    music for dancing. When the spirit of the music is characterized by counterpoint marking, clarity in the articulation is needed. It has a clear, repetitive...
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  • (Washington, DC: Counterpoint), 1996. ISBN 978-1-887178-12-9 My Vita, If You Will: The Uncollected Ed McClanahan (Washington, DC: Counterpoint), 1998. ISBN 978-1-887178-77-8...
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    Larry (2015). Surprise Attack: From Pearl Harbor to 9/11 to Benghazi. Counterpoint. p. 205. ISBN 9781619026575. Retrieved June 24, 2017. Altman, Lawrence...
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