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Month: August 2017

THE CLASSICAL REVOLUTION Thoughts on new music in the 21st century

Posted on August 30, 2017August 24, 2022 by John

Second, revised and expanded edition published by Dover Publications, New York, in 2017 (first edition by the Scarecrow Press / Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham / USA in 2013) Description: The subject matter of ‘The Classical Revolution’ is the current emerging of a new music, which is rooted in premodernist tonal traditions. In painting, figurative realism…

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Contemporary music risks

Posted on August 15, 2017December 24, 2017 by John

There hangs around classical music, and especially around its subspecies: contemporary music, an atmosphere of initiation: the listener has to know something about it to experience it to the full. Therefore people with knowledge of classical music, and especially contemporary music, are often considered ‘special’ or / and ‘elitist’, invoking feelings of inferiority with people…

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