Faces Coming Out of Carnegie Hall.
Poured full of some ripe music no poster suggests (only what's coming next) & lit by buttery streetlamp glow gray sweaters topcoats unbuttoned at the throat pearls & nubbly mufflers tonight the cream of understanding elegance of melody melody, succession of single tones of varying pitch. Melody is the linear aspect of music, in contrast to harmony, the chordal aspect, which results from the simultaneous sounding of tones. lifts them up toward a world of clear notes so when they step into the street or roll among the rest of us oily tires of taxis taxis (tăk`sĭs), movement of animals either toward or away from a stimulus, such as light (phototaxis), heat (thermotaxis), chemicals (chemotaxis), gravity (geotaxis), and touch (thigmotaxis). veering busily they have those notes to go by tipping heads together streaming into the fluent fluent /flu·ent/ (floo´int) flowing effortlessly; said of speech. dark
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