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One story has it that Debussy was greatly inspired by hearing gamelan
music at the Exposition of 1885 and tried to emulate those timbres
orchestrally.
** you know, debussy went to bayreuth, he was a big wagner fan and then had to break away from that for personal musical, as well as nationalistic, reasons. funny thing: if you take the beginning of tristan und isolde and invert it, you pretty much have the beginning of prelude to the afternoon of a faun . . .
With Wagner especially, sonic "objects" started to attain symbolic
significance.
** sure, but he also loved certain non-functional/traditional resolutions.
Yeah, blame it on Rameau!
** okay!
That's been pretty much the pattern in art and scholarship: first the
intuitive artists put it together and then the analysts take it
apart. Finally, the poor students have to emulate the masters by
rule-based exercises, and most of them get throttled in the process.
** sure, but bach and earlier composers (like vivaldi, etc.) used block chords for their choral music.
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