Hmm--I never heard of Charles Whittenberg, but if he sounds like me he must have something on the ball! And yes, there was chromaticism before Wagner (late Gesualdo madrigals, anyone?). Or Lasso's Sybillene Prophecy music? (remember those, John H?)
Aaron J. Rabushka [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.waymark.net/arabushk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Daley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 6:24 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] OT: John Cage's first national TV appearance (1960) > At 01:09 PM 5/26/2007, Aaron Rabushka wrote: > > >Wait a minute--how can anyone be wrong about what they like? Like any great > >composer Bach offers more than just a single attribute, and I think that all > >three comments here are very perceptive. When people make blanket statements > >to the effect that "all atonal music is crap" I remind them that they > >disqualify the 40th symphony of Mozart (the bit right ofter the double bar > >in the finale) > > You are sounding like my 20th Century music graduate class professor > (Charles Whittenberg) who said about some Baroque music composer who used a > "chromatic passing tone", "see, they used chromaticism back in 1600." > > I stopped listening to what he said after that. > > We also had to write a composition (for the instruments students in that > class played) for that class. I would call my style "neo-baroque". > > Whittenberg had no clue that I was writing in the pattern of Bach. I am > not sure he even knew what Baroque was. > > Several students came up to me, after the performance, and said how much > they liked playing "classical" music. > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
