Re: Form across Styles & SURVEY: perfect minatures?

On 30 Nov 2003 11:33:05 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Buster Mudd)
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.

well, i'll add that to the list -- what about the chamber concerto?

and i suppose i don't really mean 'perfect,' but 'the best you've ever
heard' or something to that effect...