DivaDiane SM’s Reviews > What to Listen For in Music > Status Update

“The famous example [of the a modern rondo] from Strauss *Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks*, is too complex to be grasped without special analysis.” Which, my dear reader, is beyond you. Ugh. Couldn’t he have just said, “For a fine and very complex example of the modern rondo please listen to…”

My fine buddy reader Jonathan pointed out these little condescending jabs and now I find them irritating.

I meant to finish this book while I was in DC this summer, but haven’t been in the mood for non-fiction, work-like stuff. But here I am with 4 more days of our stay. Let’s see if I can do it.

Next up: The Four Elements of Music - iv Tone Color. This could be interesting.

Into melody now.

Finally made it past the introductions (I thought I would look for it in audio, in the hopes that the musical example were just that, musical, and discovered 2 more intro bits from a more recent edition!

I’ve now read Chapters 1 and 2, but have only read about the “what” not the “how” part so far.

I have owned this book for quite awhile. Now I’m finally getting down to reading it “together” with Jonathan O’Neill.

According to the page number entered, I don’t have much to show for it yet, but I have actually read the Introduction, by William Schuman, the Author’s Note for the 1957 Edition, the Preface (by Copland) and the acknowledgements. Just shy of 20 pages of stuff I have little patience with!