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« Reply #15 on: 11:35:42, 28-02-2007 »
It's the start of 'Xerxes'or 'Serse' to give it its Italian Title.

As 'Handel's largo'  it used to be hugely  popular in Britain in arrangements for male voice choir, brass band, accordion and even musical saw (I kid you not).

Think of it in G, 3/4, andante crotchets D B A G-dotted minim,etc..
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« Reply #16 on: 12:20:15, 28-02-2007 »
Quote from: thompson1780 on 12:45:48, 27-02-2007
Sometimes when I am listening to music in the car, my small son will pipe up "What animal is this Music, Daddy?".  When he was younger I tried to get him to feel the character of a piece of music, by suggesting they were sound pictures of animals.
When my son was still quite young, I introduced him to Philip Glass's "Short Ride in a Fast Machine" by describing a journey through the (at the time, fictional) Transatlantic Tunnel - something which I think he enjoyed, and (we didn't have television at the time) describing the various "Thunderbirds" aircraft when listening to Barry Gray's theme music for Gerry Anderson's puppet series.
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« Reply #17 on: 12:30:20, 28-02-2007 »
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I think you're referring to *John Adams'* work of that title! Unless there's something about Glass that I don't know, which is entirely possible. Now, the Thunderbirds music is of a different ilk entirely, Da, da da DAA!  Grin
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« Reply #18 on: 12:45:12, 28-02-2007 »
Thank you Martle. Most of the wet computer seems to work as expected but the memory has less persistence than might be wished. Embarrassed
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« Reply #19 on: 00:34:52, 01-03-2007 »
Quote from: John W on 01:48:19, 28-02-2007
It can't be 'New' Music forever, when will we see definitive names for types of contemporary music?

John W

Well you could say the same about 'Classical Music', couldn't you?
I really hope that we don't see definitive names for contemporary music, and, in fact, begin to see the serious decline of terms like 'Baroque', 'Romantic' and 'Classical'.
Let's talk about composers not after-the-event clusters.
Oh I am grumpy tonight (this morning).
Time for bed.
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