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It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes.

Thanks for that link.

And I don't blame you for having trouble with Prof. Horton's article. He isn't all that technical, he just doesn't write clearly and directly (at least he cites Rosen, who has helped me understand some of these issues). But I sympathize with his basic point, even in his pompous and wordy style, that "it is not that nineteenth-century sonata forms fall within the shadow of a theorized high-classical principle that they can only distort, but that the Beethovenian achievement enables a diversity of formal procedures that the relative homogeneity of the classical style constrains." But can't he make that point without using the non-word "Beethovenian"? And frankly, isn't that how most art forms in advanced cultures evolve over long periods time?
At any rate, thank you for the link to an interesting article.



Edits: 10/30/15 10/30/15 10/30/15

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