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- From: mangoe@cs.umd.edu (Charley Wingate)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.compose
- Subject: Brother, Can You Spare a Tone
- Message-ID: <63106@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 11:20:06 GMT
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- Jeff Harrington writes:
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- >My analysis/criticism of contemporary academia was based on my experience as
- >a student. The pressure to use the 12 tone technique was intense as a
- >composer studying in the 70's and 80's. I even had a teacher tell me (in
- >graduate school, no less) that no student of mine will be allowed to
- >use tonality.
-
- In these parts we have discovered a new horror: the tonal piece driven by a
- tone row. A passage slides into a beautiful and very complex, somewhat
- dissonant harmony, but then something "goes wrong" and it winds up in a
- tooth-jarring crash of noise. Several of these things have shown up on
- National Symphony subscription series.
-
- Interestingly, the situation in choral music improved much more quickly,
- simply because the patron for most works (namely, the church) for the most
- part had and has little use for stuff that is "too wierd". On the other
- hand, we are beset with John Rutter on one side and "praise songs" on the
- other. Oh, and text bowdlerizers. But at least the situation is not
- terminal (at least outside the RC church).
- --
- C. Wingate + "The peace of God, it is no peace,
- + but strife closed in the sod.
- mangoe@cs.umd.edu + Yet, brothers, pray for but one thing:
- tove!mangoe + the marv'lous peace of God."
-