Dukas
Americannoun
noun
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Long before Walt Disney and composer Paul Dukas, there were stories about magicians and their — usually — overreaching pupils.
From Washington Post • Jul. 25, 2017
The French composer Paul Dukas encouraged him to use Manuel de Falla’s “Siete Canciones Populares Españolas” as a model for how to incorporate Mexican traditional and popular music into his works.
From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2015
Messiaen said it was the composer Paul Dukas, his teacher, who told him to “listen to the birds; they are great masters.”
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2012
The evening concert will include works that reflect the creative period during which the Impressionist artists were active: music by Ravel, Chausson, Duparc and Dukas will be performed by the orchestra.
From The Guardian • Jun. 18, 2012
Dukas uses them later in divided violins, violas and cellos, having thus a triad of harmonics doubled in the octave.
From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Goepp, Philip H.
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