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thompson1780
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« Reply #45 on: 12:40:31, 19-01-2008 »
Pick any minute of Debussy's L'Apres Midi.

And I find the minute between 47'' and 1' 46'' particularly interesting in Cage's most famous work  Wink

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« Reply #46 on: 13:32:00, 19-01-2008 »
Quote from: thompson1780 on 12:40:31, 19-01-2008
Pick any minute of Debussy's L'Apres Midi.


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« Reply #47 on: 14:54:40, 19-01-2008 »
Quote from: autoharp on 12:28:13, 19-01-2008
We do not share the member's corpulence.  We are not familiar with almost every minute of the repertoire. We are not confident that member Grew is either.
I suspect that has to do with one's definition of 'the repertoire'. I have never heard any Gurdjieff, for example, and SG has probably never heard any Henry Threadgill.
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« Reply #48 on: 20:55:32, 19-01-2008 »
Quote from: thompson1780 on 12:40:31, 19-01-2008

And I find the minute between 47'' and 1' 46'' particularly interesting in Cage's most famous work  Wink

Tommo
Ah, now, even I can do a link for this one Tommo - you just have to hover over the words for a minute: Cage shhhhh!  Cheesy
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Sydney Grew
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« Reply #49 on: 00:16:14, 20-01-2008 »
Has no one anything to say about our Bruckner extract? Or for that matter anything more about the others?
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Baz
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« Reply #50 on: 09:42:59, 20-01-2008 »
Quote from: Sydney Grew on 00:16:14, 20-01-2008
Has no one anything to say about our Bruckner extract? Or for that matter anything more about the others?


Timing in at 1' 56", it was too long! It sounded silly to cut it off after 1', yet without the first 56" the last minute hardly made any sense at all.

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« Reply #51 on: 12:23:11, 20-01-2008 »
The present thread is still falling somewhat short of its presumed aim of attracting a swarm of eager and enthusiastic music-lovers, so here is another idea. What about starting a new thread in the form of a competition where the extracts last not one minute but only a second or so? And since "finest minutes" seem so unpopular here these one-second snippets might be entirely obscure, indeed the less memorable the better suited to their purpose. There are umpteen sites where one-second chunks may be up- and down-loaded, and the competitive aspect may excite more Members' interest and enthusiasm. Is it worth trying do Members think?
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« Reply #52 on: 12:43:14, 20-01-2008 »
Sydney,

There is already in place here a quiz thread where members are invited to identify short soundclips, though I have probably removed all the clips now

http://r3ok.myforum365.com/index.php?topic=226.0


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« Reply #53 on: 12:46:57, 20-01-2008 »
It's a good idea, Sydney. It brings back old memories of "test tapes" where friends used to try and identify composer and/or piece from, say, the first note or chord - or indeed any well-chosen chord within the piece.
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« Reply #54 on: 21:08:24, 21-01-2008 »
I was just thinking about single minutes in isolation and it occurred to me that the 'Entrance of the Sage' from the Rite probably qualifies. I could listen to hours of it.
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« Reply #55 on: 01:03:28, 22-01-2008 »
admin note: quizzes about very short soundclips haved moved to the Sounds Familiar thread in the Coffee Bar

and this thread has spawned Mr Grew's hugely popular

Competition: Two- to Sixty-Second Repertoire Test



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