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IldarKhannanov
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Dear Sam, thank you very much! This can be the beginning of a longer list. I am very glad that Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal'noi Nauki is present here. There are the journals of Moscow Conservatory, Gnesin's Academy, St. Petersburg Conserva…
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Yes, absolutely! And, while it may be enjoyable to discuss rap music on a campus of an Ivy League university, after a nice dinner, at the cup of good coffee, those who live in the low-income areas of our cities deam about other things. Reverend Ford…
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I also do not think that SZT is preoccupied with getting grants. He, actually, amplifies the vibe that can be sensed everywhere today. The CMS is acting in reaction to it, as well. New music adepts, popular music fans--all seem to form their opinion…
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Dear Brent, I have found an interesting text, written by professor of St. Petersburg Conservatory Yuri Nikolayevich Bychkov on French system of solfege. Here is the link: http://yuri317.narod.ru/ped/parissol.htm It is in Russian, but the text is tec…
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Again and again I keep seeing this strange tendency to revise everything that has been done on the continent. If musicians on the continent were working with tonal-harmonic functions--we have to revise that, overturn, and try to prove that a) they w…
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Dear Bren and Nicolas, This is a discussion of the part of music theory that exists mainly in oral tradition (there is not enough published material, at least, in English). So, each of us can contribute something that has been instilled at a very ea…
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Dear Nicolas, thank you for further clarification! This is fascinating story, it should be published in English one day. I know that our colleagues at the Conservatoire are not fond of speaking English but that is the exigency of our days. I see wha…
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This is the best explanation I have seen so far! Thank you, Nicolas! I have been trying to formulate this same difference for many years. It is true that movable Do is for less technically-oriented music majors that fixed Do. And the fixed Do was in…
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Well, recipe, of course!
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There is plenty of published materials on this subject in Russian. In general, I have a recipy for success and a recipy for disaster in theory pedagogy. The recipy for success: Absolute Do solfege, obligatory keyboard harmony for all students (stric…
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If I were a Schenkerian I would try to link the idea of tonal prolongation to the prolongation of meaning in the song's lyrics. Some songs (and arias) use very few words and one mood for the whole composition. For example, Blute nur, or Wie Melodien…
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Well, yes and no. Riemann has contributed significantly into musical aesthetics. In fact, he and Guido Adler created a university discipline of musical aesthetics. The tonal-functional theory is rooted in philosophy of Hegel and Kant. Riemann mentio…
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Let us wipe out reference to Zhdanov, and to some parts of Schenker's writings that you would not write home about. Thank Heavens that we do not live in the times of trouble, before the Great War. I have a suggestion about theory, its current state.…
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Dear Stephen, please, do not jump into conclusions. Censorship is bad, I am not supporting it. Double standards are also anacceptable. Reality is grotesque, so grotesque, you would not believe it. Please, do not call me Zhdanov, ever more, it is dis…
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By 1948 Acmeism was not the most urgent problem, by the way. Using women as horses, since there was famine and no tractors to plough the ground--that was the overwhelming question. My grandmother worked as a horse, she pulled the plough. As for the…
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No, nothing can serve as an excuse. Still, who are these people Schenker writes about? Venal fringe group? There is a playful footnote to this paragraph, but it explains Schenker's ideas on form. There is no footnote that explicates the object of vi…
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Yes, horrible Zhdanov. How could I! Well, I have found another paragraph, but I do not remember, who wrote it, Zhdanov or, maybe, Goebbels himself: Betrayal was perpetrated on their own territory: by a spiritually and morally venal fringe group, whi…
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Dear Stephen, You asked for it! Here is some Zhdanov for you: Songs of the people, as musical organisms, not the compositions of certain musical-creative talents, but the works of the whole nation, are different in every fiber of their structures. T…
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Dear Nicolas, this discussion is rich and fascinating, but I received a side note in your post above that contains pretty subjective judgments. First of all, you wrote: "Rameau's Traité, on the other hand, is quite explicitly a treatise about contin…
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Dear Stephen, I am amazed by your clarification. Indeed, why theorists do what they do? For what end? Fux's example strikes me as very interesting. So, seemingly impractical theory is intended for composers, while seemingly pragmanic analysis is in…
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