Re: Form across Styles & SURVEY: perfect minatures?

"Dr.Matt" wrote:

> 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).

Ah, but is the form perfect? When we say a plan has "gone pear-shaped", it
means the furthest possible thing from perfection!

--
Jerry Kohl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Légpárnás hajóm tele van angolnákkal."