Rebel's Cahos is not really to the point, since it is a depiction of primordial Chaos. Mathias was questioning a dissonance that was presumably intended for the composer's well-ordered French universe.
On Jan 29, 2009, at 2:39 PM, Jerzy Zak wrote: > Some of you may know the famous French work by Jean-Féry Rebel, > namely "Les elemens" and its first part, "Le Cahos". Here you can > clik and listen to the first chord of it: > http://www.classicsonline.com/catalogue/product.aspx?pid=640583 > The French were really full of imagination as far as the harmony > (sonority?) is concerned. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
