Sound Reasoning
Table of Contents
Part I: Sound Reasoning
1. Sound Reasoning: A New Way of Listening
2. How Music Makes Sense
3. Listening Gallery: How Music Makes Sense
4. Musical Emphasis
5. Listening Gallery: Musical Emphasis
6. Musical Form
7. Listening Gallery: Musical Form
8. Expository and Developmental
9. Listening Gallery: Expository and Developmental
10. Overall Destiny
11. Listening Gallery: Overall Destiny
12. Time’s Effect on the Material
13. Listening Gallery: Time’s Effect
14. Summary: A Quick Guide for Listening
15. Making Music Modern
16. Listening Gallery: Making Music Modern
17. Conclusion: What is Music Trying to Express?
9. Listening Gallery: Expository and Developmental
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Development predominates. The etude traverses the entire range of the piano, is fleet, fragmentary and non-repetitive.
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Development predominates. The Prelude barely stands still. Therefore, development predominates. The music’s virtuosic character is created by its thorough, rapid progress and lack of extensive repetition.
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Exposition predominates. The music is strongly grounded. The violin and piano play a repetitive, rhythmically continuous accompaniment that “shimmers” as the clarinet’s unfurls a long, constantly evolving tune. The Liturgie certainly has developmental attributes: The improvisatory nature of the clarinet’s line keeps the music from sounding redundant or predictable. However, the underlying stability of the accompaniment and the persistent prominence of the clarinet make this primarily an expository statement.