On Jan 12, 2007, at 5:04 PM, Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
On 1/12/07, Andrew Stiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well that may be the problem right there. The symphony at that period
was not *supposed* to be interesting--symphonies were background music
for banquets, not the centerpiece of an artistic experience.
Do you find these pices less than exciting?
*On the average,* I am more likely to find a symphony from the 1st half
of the 18th c. dull than I am to feel similarly about one from the 2d
half of that century. And it seems to me that the good symphonies from
the middle decades are exciting or interesting by stealth, as it were:
the composer seems constantly aware of the need to write effective
background music, while at the same time sneaking things in for the
enjoyment of the connoisseur.
Rather like the state of film music today.
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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