Ron Chaplin:
>I wonder if you could explain to me what tension-release is in music?
Sing the "A" without the "men."
For Mahler, sing the "A," go grocery shopping, then sing the "men."
For Bruckner, sing "A A A A A A A A," then "men."
For Copland and Tchaikovsky, sing "Ah....."men."
For early Schoenberg, sing "A...."
For later Schoenberg, sing "A, C, B, F, C#, D#," then "F#, Eb, etc."
John Smyth
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