Re: Form across Styles & SURVEY: perfect minatures?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jerry Kohl  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"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."
>

Perhaps it is perfectly in the shape of a rotten pear. I don't know.





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