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- From: clavazzi@nyx.cs.du.edu (The_Doge)
- Subject: Re: ?: Dvorak's use of PENTATONIC scale?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.051738.4187@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 05:17:38 GMT
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- In article <MARCA.92Dec15013406@wintermute.ncsa.uiuc.edu> marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec15.003819.26858@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
- >jacob@max.cc.brandeis.edu ( ) writes:
- >
- > Can't talk in particular on this example but in general I've read that
- > Dvorak was really fascinated with blues and in general African-American
- > music... (much before any significant number of White Americans)
- >
- >Let's put it this way -- the original name for the ``American''
- >quartet was not ``American'' but rather what is today considered to be
- >a fairly derogatory reference to African-Americans (and no, I don't
- >mean ``black'').
- Actually, the quartet had that appelation only in Great Britain.
- Dvorak himself didn't give it a subtitle at all. It is true that he was
- fascinated by the music he heard being made by African-Americans and native
- Americans during his time in the USA and used some of these ideas in his
- music. The use of the pentatonic scale was one way of translating what he
- heard in terms of his own musical background, I assume.
- The_Doge
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- -- Dr. Samual Johnson
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