verism

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Raw and desperate almost to the point of verism, this laptop duo - who started as an art project - are revolutionary reaction personified, just in time, even if the straights won't ever bite.

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  • Raw and desperate almost to the point of verism, this laptop duo - who started as an art project - are revolutionary reaction personified, just in time, even if the straights won't ever bite. —  Glide Magazine - Music :: Culture :: Life
  • Local Exponent of Sound clip verism o http: / / www. puccini.it / files / vocepucc. wav - Scope: Centro s tudi Giacomo Puccini; Italian; Web Pupil of Web page Angeloni, Carlo http: / / localhost: 8080 / operam ap / occurs / hnh-puccini. htm - Scope: Local; Naxos Bazzini, Antonio http: / / www. naxos.com / com poser / btm. asp? fullnam e = Puccini, \% 20Giacom o - Scope: Naxos; Web Ponchielli, Am ilcare http: / / www. operone.de / kom ponist / puccini. htm l - Scope: Web http: / / www. r-ds.com / opera / pucciniana / gallery. htm - Scope: OperaRes ource; Web Web site (a) (b) http: / / www. landofpuccini.com http: / / www. puccini.it - Scope: Centro s tudi Giacomo Puccini; —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • "symbolism" and "verism," "subjectivism" and "objectivism." —  Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House
 

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  1. Italian verismo : vero, true (from Latin vērus; see wērə-o- in Indo-European roots) + -ismo, system of principles (from Latin -ismus, -ism).
 

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