God’s Grandeur (for Tenor & Orchestra)
Sunday, September 5th, 2010http://ornette.com/God%20s%20Grandeur-ORCH-9-5-10.pdf Here’s a pdf of my score of the setting of G.M. Hopkins’ “God’s Grandeur” for Tenor & Orchestra.
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Counterpoint, The Inscrutible Arnold Schoenberg, and His Mystifying Pierrot Lunaire
Sunday, September 5th, 2010Counterpoint,
The Inscrutible Arnold Schoenberg,
and His Mystifying Pierrot Lunaire
(or Why I’m Not Smart Enough to be a Theorist)
Counterpoint: the study of the art of voice leading with respect to motivic combination (and ultimately the study of the ‘contrapuntal forms’). Schoenberg, Harmonielehre.
To say that there are only two types of music theory would not only be rhetorically reductive in the extreme, but would also be an excellent example of falsehood. This issue of falsehood aside, let me at least make a categorical distinction,
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