Re: New Thread: Classical Music Influences on Us

[jim palmer <jimp@pobox.com>]

>...may want to check out 
> Messiaen. While he often gets pegged as the "bird song composer", 
> transcribing bird songs was only one of the many techniques he used. 
>...
> Analyzing the Quartet for the End of Time reveals a lot of 
> interesting uses of tone rows, rhythmic rows, rhythmic palindromes. 
> etc. What's most interesting is that his music never comes of as dry 
> or academic.
> 

i admit i am guilty of this bias.  i remember hating that bird song stuff,
and whenever someone mentions him i shut my brain off. 
i'll check the quartet out...