Re: desert island disk: Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet

[Peter Thompson <pt205@hermes.cam.ac.uk>]

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> Plus, how many orchestral looping pieces are there?
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I suppose I am stretching the definition of looping to an extreme here,
but the repetition of a musical figure or harmonic progression is a
standard device in classical, if not orchestral music.  Think of Bach's
Chaconne in D minor, Pachelbel's Canon, Ravel's Bolero etc.  There is a
piece for solo lute by John Dowland (ca 1600) which consists of a repeated
descending chromatic scale around which he weaves various harmonic and
melodic threads.  If only he'd had a JamMan....

Peter Thompson