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- From: jonb@Ingres.COM (Jon Berger)
- Subject: Re: Modes; was: Re: Reading music - book sought.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.164337.17394@pony.Ingres.COM>
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- References: <BzEvzy.CEr@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1992Dec17.175722.4795@pony.Ingres.COM> <1992Dec19.110032.20693@yang.earlham.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 16:43:37 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec19.110032.20693@yang.earlham.edu>, johnl@yang.earlham.edu (John Fiskio-Lasseter) writes:
- >One of the constantly fascinating aspects of this story is the cultural
- >differences it highlights. The tritone is widely used in the traditional
- >music of eastern Europe. Its prominence in the traditional music of
- >Hungary had a great deal of influence on the Hungarian composer Bela
- >Bartok, who employed the tritone extensively in his compositions. Yet
- >many westerners find Bartok's music ugly and unpleasant. As I know next
- >to nothing about Hungary, I'm not sure how they view him there, but I
- >imagine he is a lot more accessible.
-
- More tritones: Bernstein, who may well have listened to a lot of Bartok,
- used 'em all over the place in "West Side Story", not in a harmonic way
- (with the two notes played at the same time), but in melodies, with the
- two notes right next to each other. The first three notes of the whole
- show, in fact, are 5-1-4#. One of the reasons it gets your attention
- so well is that it's fairly uncommon in the music most of us are used
- to listening to.
-
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