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Billie Holiday

by j3nnie » Sat Nov 15, 2008 5:51 pm
Deliberately imitating the technique of Louis Armstrong, jazz singer Billie Holiday’s approach to singing was to use her voice like an instrument, in that she ranged freely over the beat, flattened out the melodic contours of tunes, and, in effect, recomposed songs to suit her range, style, and artistic sensibilities.

A. Billie Holiday’s approach to singing was to use her voice like an instrument, in that she ranged freely over the beat, flattened.
B. Billie Holiday’s approach to singing was to use her voice in a similar way to how other musicians play instruments, in ranging freely over the beat, flattening.
C. Billie Holiday approached singing by using her voice like other musicians played instruments, ranging freely over the beat, flattening.
D. Billie Holiday used her voice in the same way that other musicians use their instruments, in that she ranged freely over the beat, flattening.
E. Billie Holiday approached singing by using her voice like other musicians Instruments, ranging freely over the beat, flattening.

[spoiler]: D[/spoiler][/i]
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Re: Billie Holiday

by iamcste » Sat Nov 15, 2008 6:44 pm
j3nnie wrote:Deliberately imitating the technique of Louis Armstrong, jazz singer Billie Holiday’s approach to singing was to use her voice like an instrument, in that she ranged freely over the beat, flattened out the melodic contours of tunes, and, in effect, recomposed songs to suit her range, style, and artistic sensibilities.

A. Billie Holiday’s approach to singing was to use her voice like an instrument, in that she ranged freely over the beat, flattened.
B. Billie Holiday’s approach to singing was to use her voice in a similar way to how other musicians play instruments, in ranging freely over the beat, flattening.
C. Billie Holiday approached singing by using her voice like other musicians played instruments, ranging freely over the beat, flattening.
D. Billie Holiday used her voice in the same way that other musicians use their instruments, in that she ranged freely over the beat, flattening.
E. Billie Holiday approached singing by using her voice like other musicians Instruments, ranging freely over the beat, flattening.

[spoiler]: D[/spoiler][/i]

Deliberately imitating the technique of Louis Armstrong, jazz singer-should modifiy Billie and not her approach-A and B can be eliminated

IN D, "Billie Holiday used her voice" and "other musicians use their instruments" are parallel ( use, pronoun case-possessive, and comparsion is proper--Billies uses her instruments as other musicians use their instruments, In short her voice is like an instrument for her


D uses right comparison and parallelism to show comparison

You can see incorrect comparisons and parallelism in C and E
( see the bold part in C and E )
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by amitabhprasad » Sat Nov 15, 2008 8:04 pm
I have one doubt regarding "D".
Looks like in "D" two clauses are compared but the conjunction used in "that ". I am not sure whether use of "that" is correct in this case.
In fact I see "E" as better alternative then "D", in "E" two nouns are compared using conjunction "like"
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by iamcste » Sat Nov 15, 2008 8:17 pm
amitabhprasad wrote:I have one doubt regarding "D".
Looks like in "D" two clauses are compared but the conjunction used in "that ". I am not sure whether use of "that" is correct in this case.
In fact I see "E" as better alternative then "D", in "E" two nouns are compared using conjunction "like"
Dude, looking at the meaning

E uses incorrect comparsion. Can anyone sing like other musician instruments....Real intent is that as a musician uses an instrument, she uses her "voice" as an insturment
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by amitabhprasad » Sat Nov 15, 2008 8:27 pm
Crap I missed that
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by iamcste » Sat Nov 15, 2008 8:31 pm
amitabhprasad wrote:Crap I missed that
Thanks buddy
No worries.
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Re: Billie Holiday

by maihuna » Sun Sep 13, 2009 4:17 am
j3nnie wrote:Deliberately imitating the technique of Louis Armstrong, jazz singer Billie Holiday�s approach to singing was to use her voice like an instrument, in that she ranged freely over the beat, flattened out the melodic contours of tunes, and, in effect, recomposed songs to suit her range, style, and artistic sensibilities.

A. Billie Holiday�s approach to singing was to use her voice like an instrument, in that she ranged freely over the beat, flattened.

[spoiler]: D[/spoiler][/i]
What is wrong with A.
Charged up again to beat the beast :)
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