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mozart piano concerto 21
Francis, really you have gone too far. What are you smoking/drinking/eating/applying through a body patch? Michelangelo, to answer your question. As to the specifics, though I very rarely drink any kind of carbonated soft drink, I prefer Coke t…

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Odd voicing?
And i wonder why so few choirs do my four part works for chorus and orchestra ... gotta start writing for 2 trebles, a baritone, and a very very low alto, with organ.

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mozart piano concerto 21
Listen to K515 and K516. Mendelssohn never wrote anything that came anywhere close. Schubert wrote some magnificent songs, like Chopin some magnificent piano music, but didn't have the breadth and depth of Mozart. Brahms, Haydn, Handel, not…

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A parish liturgist?
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mozart piano concerto 21
Francis, would you please bump that earlier post from your luthier ... had some most interesting points in it, and I can't find it. As to I I I I V V V V V I I I etc, I used to rage at Tchaikovsky because every darn moment was formed into an …

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mozart piano concerto 21
Rubenstein: about 01:17:50, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J38vad2DVs Illustrating some of the points from Francis' earlier post re 10 rules to better music.

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mozart piano concerto 21
A step up for K467, II: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJPkA-L-Qm0 Maria Pires

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mozart piano concerto 21
I don't defend K467 as the best piece, just Mozart as the best composer.

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mozart piano concerto 21
Lol ... i take that as a challenge, I'm going to try to find a good performance of K467 2d movement. Meanwhile, free music and a very fine performance of a great piece: https://soundcloud.com/santa-fe-chamber-music/02-mozart-string-quintet-…

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mozart piano concerto 21
In terms of preferences for performers, not so good. Just an opinion.

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mozart piano concerto 21
You have to remember that the Kochel listings are somewhat deceiving: K467 sounds high, but it was in that perfervid period, Mozart as a rapidly developing young man, just before such masterpieces as Le Nozze di Figaro (K492) and the Piano Quartet i…

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Musica ficta in Machaut's "Gloria"
Exciting work to be preparing, good luck! It's very tempting to dig in deeply but I don't have time right now. Generally it looks to me as if Schrade was using the 'squeeze the neighbor and leadingtone' rubric, rather than an…

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They Ate and Had Their Fill--2-pt des pres adaptation (ST and AB editions)
CHG, you are getting good! And even better, you are right. My apologies, Heath. Sorry to waste your time rechecking. I misled myself with the modern key signature. Had I seen it rightly as modern E minorish, one sharp, it would have fallen i…

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Magnificat Recordings
Lol. I guess I could see Klezmer. #10 actually reminded me, a little uncomfortably, of Mozart's Canzonetta sull'Aria oops, no, "L'ho perduta", the Aria for Barbarina, from Le Nozze de Figaro, though I had no intention of …

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They Ate and Had Their Fill--2-pt des pres adaptation (ST and AB editions)
Yes, the AB version. The first bar, E is a perfect fifth above A. The second bar, in your version, the E would have to be a major sixth above the G, and then, either the G goes higher to make that interval pure, or the E goes lower. If the forme…

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They Ate and Had Their Fill--2-pt des pres adaptation (ST and AB editions)
I get plenty of criticism here for being attentive to intonation, so, discount my comment all you like. But are you sure you are being true to Josquin? This, again, does not seem right to me. The second measure already looks wrong, it would imo…

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Alternating at the mediant cadence?
Me too, with some of the above: I never understood or appreciated the pauses, but took the time to read Adam's essay, and now do both better. Thank you, posters. A further clarification, please: let's say a composer wanted to elabora…

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PEP
Update, i think another thread here answered my query: no need for another simple, chantlike setting of the psalms for the year, even if it takes into account intonation. As Irishtenor has intimated before, perhaps relatively straightforward poly…

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Respond and Acclaim VS. Gelineau VS. Guimont
Thanks to all, historical and otherwise, for the info here. On looking through the settings already made, I don't see the need for my idea of the 'progressive psalms' mixing sight reading and the church year. Quick decision already …

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Too much talk about tuning?
Well, as you probably have heard from me too often, I'm instigating a change in the 21st century, that composed music in any style, and performance of any period (except maybe from Haydn to Shubert) should take into account the underlying inton…

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Too much talk about tuning?
how about the fa and leading tones I believe in western music, from the 3-note group tonic, subdominant, dominant, rather than from a single note as francis seems to be implying. As to the mean tone tuning, it's great (imo) for a harpsichor…

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PEP
Here is one example, text taken from Ryand's SEP book #1. No offense intended at all, nor any correction implied, just an example. My notion is that the second line is either a second voice part or an organ line; if the latter, the small n…

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New Responsorial Psalms for Advent, Year B
Resurrecting an old thread: what is more generally used, the Simple Gradual or the seasonal readings by year A, B, C? Perhaps I'm showing that I'm no expert in the liturgical texts. It is so. But I'd like to learn.

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Too much talk about tuning?
Thanks for that Julie! Francis, that pentatonic scale is fine. It's the one your instrument derives from the harmonic series of a single note that troubles me.

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Magnificat Recordings
Final update, I hope: entire Magnificat at https://soundcloud.com/copper-magnificat/magnificat-by-william-copper-complete for the enthusiast, should there be one. William

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Too much talk about tuning?
Well, francis, maybe ... I've tried to put the seventh harmonic into my world from time to time: it, and your pentatonic scale, don't seem right. Or I can't hear it right. Maybe I'll join a barbershop quartet and improve my se…

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Concerning Linear and Non-Linear Threads (discussions)[thinking]
I can agree with that. Split it off. RC is a prince, really, among moderators.

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Concerning Linear and Non-Linear Threads (discussions)[thinking]
Some of us should be thankful there is hair that can be split sigh. or regretful that there used to be some

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Concerning Linear and Non-Linear Threads (discussions)[thinking]
Going another direction: this is a vote for the enormous power of "browsing" as opposed to "searching" (pace Google). You find much more interesting and potentially life changing material by being a whale (funnel all that plan…

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Concerning Linear and Non-Linear Threads (discussions)[thinking]
Inserting a commercial notice is a tiny bit junglish, but your book looks interesting. Lulu does not offer anything to view other than a larger version of the cover page ... got some samples to offer, matthewj?

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