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by Aidevah 3y ago
There's this wonderful passage in in Shaw's letters when he expressed the same opinion: > By all means put Mozart in his place; but don't be led into thinking that it was not a very high place. And don't read his scor
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by Aidevah 3y ago
The book under review consists of a collection of remarks about individual works by Beethoven. For each individual work, the author lists some historical anecdotes and follows it up with a list of notable recordings. Of course, the recordin
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by Aidevah 4y ago
>Why would anyone want to listen to it then? what would be the point? The acoustic equivalent of a screensaver? Isn't that exactly how music is consumed nowadays by most people? They put something when driving, cooking, doing homewo
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by Aidevah 4y ago
Rosen did mention that persistent error eventually harden into tradition, and we get used to anything, and what we are used to becomes what feels right. On the other hand I have never heard that Chopin sonata before I read Rosen's argu
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by Aidevah 4y ago
The pianist Charles Rosen mentioned a longstanding error when most pianists play Chopin's B-flat minor sonata: when they repeat the exposition they begin from the Doppio movimento, instead of the very beginning. Rosen's argument i
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by Aidevah 4y ago
Daughter of Charles Burney and acquaintance of Dr Samuel Johnson. What a life!
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by Aidevah 4y ago
> Traditionally, Prescriptivists tend to be political conservatives and Descriptivists tend to be liberals. But today’s most powerful influence on the norms of public English is actually a stern and exacting form of liberal Prescriptivis
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by Aidevah 4y ago
The grandeur of early 17th century English prose really is something quite special. Charles Rosen gave a memorable account in his review of Burton: > The first part of the seventeenth century was, for Samuel Johnson when he compiled his
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by Aidevah 4y ago
"Cunctator" or "the delayer" was of course, the sobriquet given to the famous dictator and consul Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, whose eponymous strategy helped to fend off Hannibal from Rome.
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by Aidevah 4y ago
We are much of the same mind. The organ may be the queen of the instruments, but the human voice is king, and I much prefer singing without distracting organ accompaniments. That being said, I don't think you can get a full picture of
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by Aidevah 4y ago
Even a string quartet can produce quite an impressive dynamic range if the music calls for it. The Takacs quartet recording of Beethoven's Grosse Fuge is a great example with the extreme contrast between the soft, slow section and the
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by Aidevah 4y ago
There's a reason for the continued popularity for the piano in western music pedagogy (for the classical/literate tradition at least). The keyboard provides an ordered mapping of the musical scale into physical space, which makes
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by Aidevah 4y ago
- Ukraine will consider or even begin to replace the Cyrillic alphabet with the latin alphabet
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by Aidevah 4y ago
Yes. It's very difficult to say anything interesting or revealing about music that cannot otherwise be understood or felt by listening to an intelligent performance. Most people are incapable of describing "the music itself",
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by Aidevah 4y ago
There may be no universally agreed right way, but there are certainly wrong ways. "Octopuses" and "octopodes" are both acceptable, but "octopi" is wrong. "Octopuses" can be justified using Fowler&#x27
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by Aidevah 4y ago
The word awe-inspiring is often used as a hyperbole, but in this case I really think it adequately describes Mlle. Boulanger. If you consider her influence over the 20th century, she surely ranks among the greatest pedagogues in the entire
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Pat Gelsinger and Linus Torvalds talk Linux, open source, technology and more(youtube.com)
10 points by Aidevah 4y ago|4 comments
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by Aidevah 4y ago
Agreed on The Discarded Image, it really is very good. I've read it together with Huizinga's The Autumn of the Middle Ages and they both provide fascinating insights into not just how people lived but more importantly what they th
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by Aidevah 4y ago
Yes, exactly. A note is rarely found by itself, and looking at the context surrounding the note usually clears up the function of a note pretty quickly. Now that I think about it, the notation actually reduces ambiguity in this case since i
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by Aidevah 4y ago
> The next level of explanation is to say: “Yes, I recognize that D-sharp and E-flat sound the same, but they function differently, and the spelling communicates this functional difference.” This explanation always bothered me, because i
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Temple Warning Inscription(en.wikipedia.org)
7 points by Aidevah 4y ago|2 comments
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Professor of music unravels centuries-old authorship mystery(phys.org)
2 points by Aidevah 4y ago|0 comments
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by Aidevah 4y ago
If you look at the list for the most famous people of all time, and especially for men[1], a large majority seem to have originated (and even remained all their life) outside what most people would consider the "privileged elite".
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Shanghai Shelf Life(lrb.co.uk)
3 points by Aidevah 4y ago|0 comments
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by Aidevah 4y ago
Handel became a subject of Britain in 1727 by an act of parliament[1]. The text of the act itself[2] clearly referred to him as "George Frederic Handel" with no umlauts. Considering he spent the rest of his life in Britain as a na
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by Aidevah 4y ago
> Here in Europe, in many countries like Italy, Germany, Austria, and so on, it did exist. Concerts, operas, etc, were popular affairs, at least from middle class and above. Precisely, the mass consumption of literate (i.e. notated musi
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by Aidevah 4y ago
I think your objection, together with the author of the review, rests on the assumption that throughout history there have always existed a mass audience that consumes and supports literate music. It's better to think this mass consump
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by Aidevah 4y ago
Resistance to Beethoven's music continued well into the 20th century. From Charles Rosen's "Critical Entertainments": > The difficulty of understanding Beethoven is well known: even at the end of the nineteenth centur
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Don’t Lie on Your Gold(lrb.co.uk)
1 points by Aidevah 4y ago|0 comments
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by Aidevah 4y ago
Wagner, more than any other composer of his generation, undermined tonality as it was conceived and understood by Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. Schoenberg's debt to Wagner is most explicit in the Verklaerte Nacht, but I think it's

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