Steven Schwartz <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Bob K.:
>
>>I've been noticing lately that PT takes a lot of flak both on this list
>>and elsewhere.
>
>Certainly not from me.
Not from me either!
>The 19th-century nationalists wanted to base their symphonies on song
>and unfortunately the tendency of symphonic construction works counter to
>the tendency of song construction. The symphonic phrase links; the song
>phrase "rounds off." How Tchaikovsky solved the main features of this
>problem would take more time to relate than I have right now.
Still I think you might agree that the symphony form didn't fit Tjajkovskij
very well?
(I don't want to be a Tjajkovskij-basher, he is a wonderful composer, but I
think still this statement to be true)
James Zehm <[log in to unmask]>