Repeat play...

[pastoralguy]

Does anyone ever use this facility? I've been busy this afternoon and I've had the Stephen Hough cd of the Late Brahms piano music on repeat. It's given a lovely aural ambience to my activities!

I sit with a young man with a learning difficulty on Mondays and Fridays and it's not always appropriate to jump up and down to change the 'relaxing music' disc so I choose a cd from the Schiff/Vegh Mozart piano concerto set and simply put it on repeat.

[Dave2002]

Sometimes happens accidentally. After the 1st repeat I get suspicious, but but by the 3-5th repeats I'm getting seriously concerned!

[Bryn]

In the past, I've employed it for Satie's Vexations. However, these days I am more likely to pop a USB memory stick with the FLACs of Jeroen van Veen's complete recording into my system.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

No need to do this in a Bruckner symphony. He does this in the score.

[jayne lee wilson]

No need to do this in a Bruckner symphony. He does this in the score.

The only sectional repeats in Bruckner Symphonies are in the scherzi, hardly exceptional.

Thematically the music is in an almost constant state of change - evolution, contrapuntal combination and variation, often multilayered, which is one reason why so many listeners find the music baffling, as they try to fit it into, or comprehend it from, preconceived formal models.

The building-up of structural shape and tension through repeated short motifs and figures is again, scarcely unique to Bruckner, but perhaps more obvious due to the timescales he works in and through. But those very motifs themselves undergo many developmentally and structurally focussed transformations in the course of the work. Compare the opening of the 3rd Symphony (in any version) with the start of the coda to that 1st movement....

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As for the repeat function on music playback, the main use I have for it is in running-in a given hi-fi component, especially disc-players, from new or cold, or indeed a cable...(though it is easier to add a burn-in to the order from the cablemaker...)...

[LeMartinPecheur]

The only sectional repeats in Bruckner Symphonies are in the scherzi, hardly exceptional.

Thematically the music is in an almost constant state of change - evolution, contrapuntal combination and variation, often multilayered, which is one reason why so many listeners find the music baffling, as they try to fit it into, or comprehend it from, preconceived formal models.

The building-up of structural shape and tension through repeated short motifs and figures is again, scarcely unique to Bruckner, but perhaps more obvious due to the timescales he works in and through. But those very motifs themselves undergo many developmentally and structurally focussed transformations in the course of the work. Compare the opening of the 3rd Symphony (in any version) with the start of the coda to that 1st movement....

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As for the repeat function on music playback, the main use I have for it is in running in a given component, especially disc-players, from new or cold, or indeed a cable...(though it is easier to add a burn-in to the order from the cablemaker...)...

jlw: you could be preaching to the unconverted/ unconvertible

[jayne lee wilson]

jlw: you could be preaching to the unconverted/ unconvertible

Somewhere in my unwritten life-contract is a clause about "Always stand up for Bruckner..." - with the sort of passion Edmund expressed to the Gods about Bastards.

Anyway, never heard of deathbed conversion? Very Brucknerian. But one continues to proselytise in the hope it may come a little sooner......

[LeMartinPecheur]

Somewhere in my unwritten life-contract is a clause about "Always stand up for Bruckner..." - with the sort of passion Edmund expressed to the Gods about Bastards.

Anyway, never heard of deathbed conversion? Very Brucknerian. But one continues to proselytise in the hope it may come a little sooner......

Fair enough, though I do worry a teeny bit at the thought of Committed Brucknerians arriving unannounced at someone's deathbed!

[Rjw]

No need to do this in a Bruckner symphony. He does this in the score.

[ahinton]

Somewhere in my unwritten life-contract is a clause about "Always stand up for Bruckner..." - with the sort of passion Edmund expressed to the Gods about Bastards.

Anyway, never heard of deathbed conversion? Very Brucknerian. But one continues to proselytise in the hope it may come a little sooner......

Good for you, Jayne!

[ahinton]

No need to do this in a Bruckner symphony. He does this in the score.

And no other composer ever repeats passages in a score?...

[Bryn]

And no other composer ever repeats passages in a score?...

William Carlos Williams knew a song about that, didn't he?

[cloughie]

And no other composer ever repeats passages in a score?...

Glass?

[ahinton]

Glass?

Well, I wasn't actually thinking about composers who rarely do anything else...

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

And no other composer ever repeats passages in a score?...

Not many repeat the same bar 8 times without noticeable variation.