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		<title>Debussy: La Mer (3rd Movement)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wrlen1</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Debussy annoys me a bit. Not that I dislike his writing, but so much of his music is about colours, that it makes it difficult to look at the score and quickly understand what is going on. Probably a good reason to study his scores more. La mer (the sea) is a 3 movement symphonic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monashcomposers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6736461&amp;post=1931&amp;subd=monashcomposers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra (5th Movement)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The movement starts with the horn sections in unision presenting some rapid changes in modality. The opening bar suggests C major (or minor) with a rising octave, immediately followed by four descending quavers that that suggest G major with the use of a sharpened F. In bar three it seems like we have returned to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monashcomposers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6736461&amp;post=1929&amp;subd=monashcomposers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LIGETI Continuum – for harpsichord</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 08:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abmet1</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This piece moves so fast that it almost appears to remain stagnant. The intervals in this develop gradually beneath an extremely busy superficial layer, which contributes to my previous statement. Overall, I found this piece grew tiresome because of the constant movement. There is no rhythm in this piece (which contributed to my feeling that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monashcomposers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6736461&amp;post=1922&amp;subd=monashcomposers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ANTON WEBERN – 5 Movements for String Quartet</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 07:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I In the first movement, the swelling arco contrabass melody from bar 7, teamed with the embellishing constant piano dynamic tremello quavers in the viole, provides an interesting textural effect, that highlights the dissonance of the melody nicely. It also sounds very much like both of these effects are happening within the one instrument, even [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monashcomposers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6736461&amp;post=1920&amp;subd=monashcomposers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Danse Macabre by Saint-Saëns Camille</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 06:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The piece is a tone-poem, that was eventually rewritten for orchestra, featuring a melody for the solo violin. This piece features my favourite interval (my head is doing a 360 turn right now): The tritone ☺. Interestingly enough, Saint-Saëns decided that this effect should be produced through scordatura, rather than just making the violinist play [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monashcomposers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6736461&amp;post=1918&amp;subd=monashcomposers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TORU TAKEMITSU &#8211; “Rain Tree”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 06:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first page (first 29bars) of this piece is a homage to simplicity. The eerie ringing of the lingering upper partials had an amazing effect of creating stillness. The lighting switching between the percussions players was effective in setting the mood for this I felt that it with the spotting on and off, that this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monashcomposers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6736461&amp;post=1916&amp;subd=monashcomposers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PROKOFIEV  – Piano Sonata no1 in F Minor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 06:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This first third of this piece works with a rigid rhythmic motif (dotted crochet, crochet, quaver, dotted crochet, crochet quaver etc) that is transformed through pitch. The interesting thing to note with this repetitive rhythmic idea is that, pitch-wise, it is hard to determine where the start of the phrase is and where the end [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monashcomposers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6736461&amp;post=1914&amp;subd=monashcomposers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CLAUDE DEBUSSY– Footsteps in the Snow</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 06:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abmet1</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://monashcomposers.wordpress.com/?p=1912</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This piece opens with the simplistic “footsteps” motif if D-E-E-F, and in and of itself, it has two delicate layers; that of the sustained D as a subtle undercurrent to set the mood, and that of the aforementioned “footsteps” motif. The piece revolves around this initial motif, with the theme reoccurring (without pitch or rhythmic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monashcomposers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6736461&amp;post=1912&amp;subd=monashcomposers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PETER MAXWELL DAVIES-Eight Songs for a Mad King</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 06:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wicked beginning, the woodblock makes the entry sound like a cookoo clock and when the violin enters with light glissando, the impression is that there are birds conversing. The flute then enters with this theme, and the memory keeps flashing within my mind of the initial scene with Gepeto in Pinocchio…The timing then becomes very [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monashcomposers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6736461&amp;post=1910&amp;subd=monashcomposers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OLIVIER MESSIAEN – Vingt Regards sur L’Enfant Jesus</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 06:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I – Regard du Pere The rhythm phrases in the bass are progressively augmented whist the treble stave continues to explore the stagnant high-pitched demi-semi quaver motif in comparison to the changing bass. It is interesting to note that this is the only melodic device employed, within this piece, no individual line has a melody, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monashcomposers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6736461&amp;post=1908&amp;subd=monashcomposers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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