July 10, 2006

for low speeds of debussy

Dear Lord. The first set of Debussy's Images is amazing. It's one thing to hear someone play them at tempo, sliding through passages faster than you could possibly comprehend them. It's another to actually pick through them yourself. The difference is like walking through an alpine meadow vs. driving past it at 60 miles an hour. Sure, in the latter case, you see a blaze of color, but it's not until you set out on foot that you identify every tiny tonal bloom in staggering detail.

Posted by Alan at July 10, 2006 12:07 AM
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Don't get me started on "coloristic" harmony. I could go on for days. Of course now that you are in to Debussy, you have to follow through with the "tonal emancipation" and do (early) Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, and then come full circle to Stravinsky's neoclassical period. I do love me some Symphony of Psalms. Ah...the weeping motif.

Posted by: Franz Joseph 1st at July 10, 2006 11:03 PM

blech to that. brains don't emancipate music. brains constrain.

Posted by: alan at July 10, 2006 11:34 PM
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