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- From: mangoe@cs.umd.edu (Charley Wingate)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.compose
- Subject: Re: Brother, Can You Spare a Tone
- Message-ID: <63118@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 10:20:12 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.125117.13521@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
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- Matthew Fields writes:
-
- >My guess is there's no tone row in this piece. The composer may have just
- >put the irrelevent material (tooth-jarring is great if the piece leads
- >you to it naturally) there just as a stylish thing to do or as a way to
- >pacify somebody or pretend that they're not writing tonal music.
-
- Well, I may be misremembering the details of the explanation, but the tone
- row was listed in the program. (This concert was mostly a dud. The
- next piece on the program was the Bach triple "piano" concerto in C [i.e.,
- the harpsechord concerto played using pianos-- it works quite well that way,
- actually, as attested to by an old recording I have featuring the whole
- Casedesus family], and went mostly to show that Rostopovich can't conduct a
- baroque piece to save his soul.)
-
- >My only comment on the state of choral music is that madrigal groups
- >and Canadian professonal choirs have always been more adventurous than
- >US amateur religious choirs. The works of Jacques Desjardins come to mind
- >(Hi, Jacques, you out there?)
-
- Well, the religious choir does have to sing to an end (namely, their place
- in the liturgy), which limits how "adventurous" they can really be and do
- their job-- especially where "adventurous" means "shocking the bourgeous".
- As to your point about other groups, it is well taken.
- --
- 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."
-