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Steve replies to Robert:
>>Lesser composers make quick, perfunctory returns to tonal
>>centers or travel so far from them that the listener hardly
>>recognizes them when finally brought home."
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>Yes: You don't like Bruch or Hovhaness as much as you do Mahler
>and Brahms, for whatever reason. It may be the one the author cites.
>However, Mozart doesn't modulate all that much. Neither does Josquin
>or Byrd. On the other hand, Reger, Raff, and Petterson-Berger jump
>around tonally like fleas on brick.
It's all in the delivery. Music is like a pick-up line at a bar--some
people can get away with "Let's go baby," and others have to do a lot
of talking first. It all depends on what you can get away with.
John Smyth
Sacramento, CA
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