Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate
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Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostIt has been said that that particular theme was the big influence on later composers of music for Westerns - but I can't now remember by whom. Incidentally, that same music professor had never heard of Henri Sauguet...
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostIt depends upon which melody you mean. One is almost whole-tome, while the following one is almost pentatonic.
Pom Pom pi-dom pi pom pi pom etc (pentatonic - it's the boldened D natural on "Pom" that stops it being entirely whole-tone, and turns it pentatonic).[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostPom pi-Dom pi pompi pompi, Pom pi-dom pi diddleiddle pom (whole-tone)
Pom Pom pi-dom pi pom pi pom etc (pentatonic - it's the boldened D natural on "Pom" that stops it being entirely whole-tone, and turns it pentatonic).
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Originally posted by MrGongGong View PostA perfect example of uni-intervalic-non-heirachical-pan-diatonicism
(gets coat.... )
But it's in these subtle ways that RVW takes and mixes varieties of pre-existing materials in highly individual ways that makes him such an interesting composer for me. It would be very foolish for anyone to presume what he's going to do - and yet the results of these unusal uses sound "natural" and absolutely "right", so that a careless listening [cf # 3651] might easily miss the elaborations going on.[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View PostMy one fervent wish is that all recordings of Copland's ballet scores, Billy the Kid and Rodeo, should be locked away in a BBC vault and marked "do not open until 2025". They could join VW's "Wasps" overture and Arnold's "Padstow Lifeboat" in a justified musical purdah.
When there are literally tens of thousands of other unheard pieces it seems like lazy programming in the extreme to constantly parade these once worthy pieces to the point where regular listeners groan and reach for the off switch.
Now playing.
Again.O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!
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