David, --- David Rastall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Nov 29, 2007, at 5:16 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Once again, point taken. But it's not all that way. > Consider > Piazzolla: he's a cultural force. Listening to > L'Histoire du Tango > is for me like strolling through a gallery of modern > art. It's a bit > like a modern-day version of Pictures At An > Exhibition. > Piazzolla worked for most of his life as an outsider on both sides of the fence. He received death threats from the hardcore traditional tango fans who wanted no change to the genre as they perceived it. He studied "serious" composition with the by then arch-conservative Nadia Boulanger. During his life he was certainly no force at all in serious music - no one who wanted to be recognized in academia would dare write in Piazzolla's style. There is no Piazolla "school" the way there is a colorist school, postmodern school, etc. Besides, his music has only really taken off in popularity since his death. I know there are plenty who would disagree with me, but personally I often find his music pretty bland. The rhythms are nice, but I find the harmonies rather predictable and dull in the scheme of things. The music seems rather cliche-driven and, taken as a whole, there are far too many decending chromatic sequences in which a short motif is repeated step by step by step for my taste. But really, shouldn't we be talking about what kind of lute to use when playing the Cinco Piezas? ;-) Chris > > ...Why draw a line in the > > sand about something as trivial as whether having > an > > extra two strings on your instrument is an offence > > against the lute gods or whether you may allow > your > > eyes to stray forward or back ten or twenty years > > along the time line? > > No reason that I can see. > > David R > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better pen pal. Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. See how. http://overview.mail.yahoo.com/
