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GG: Music theorists?
I plead to the music theorists and musicians on the list!
The following is an excerpt from a _Canadian Composer_ interview with GG
(March 1972):
"...the opening segment of _North_ has a kind of trio-sonata
texture, but it is really an exercize in texture and not a
conscious effort to regenerate a musical form. Three people speak
more or less simultaneously...The scene is built so it has a kind of--
I don't know if you have ever looked at the tone rows of Anton Webern
as distinguished from those of Arnold Schoenberg-- but it has a kind
of Webern-like continuity-in-crossover in that motives which are
similar but not identical are used for the exchange of instrumental
ideas. So, in that sense, textually, it was very musical."
I wish I had a nickel for every time GG mentions the tone rows of
Webern! I understand what GG means in relation to _North_, but what,
for example, might be an "instrumental idea" of Webern's? How are
Webern's tone rows different from Schoenberg's?
-Mary Jo
P.S. Anyone gotten the new copy of _GlennGould_ yet?