Re: Form across Styles & SURVEY: perfect minatures?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Buster Mudd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Adam Golding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> 
>> What pieces would you name if i asked you for examples of short pieces
>> with 'perfect' forms?  Pieces may be in any style, with any 'formal'
>> asesthetic, just must be fairly short (2-3 minutes), and must be held
>> by yourself in the highest esteem.  
>
>
>Webern's Symphonie Opus 21 might be the *only* piece of music that one
>could claim something as audacious as "perfect form" about & keep a
>straight face.

I can keep a straight face while talking about Satie's Trois pieces en
forme d'une poire (three pieces in the form of a pear).



-- 
       Matthew H. Fields http://personal.www.umich.edu/~fields
                        Music: Splendor in Sound
  Brights have a naturalistic world-view. http://www.the-brights.net/