tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367173689821897070.post5585825043623172907..comments2023-10-28T09:12:58.330-04:00Comments on MMmusing: Musical SnapshotsMICHAEL MONROEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16392848296427560715noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367173689821897070.post-5839587707431034752011-09-06T11:46:57.894-04:002011-09-06T11:46:57.894-04:00Yes, Dan, that's exactly the kind of thing I h...Yes, Dan, that's exactly the kind of thing I have in mind. I think it could also be nice for showing long-range harmonic structure, which is hard to get across in just words to the novice listener. In class recently, I played various statements of the very familiar ritornello from Vivaldi's "Spring" back-to-back-to-back as a way to show that each modulation helped give the work its overall shape. But I can tell that students still might not get the point - hearing the piece in a few seconds could help. Kind of Schenkerian...MICHAEL MONROEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16392848296427560715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367173689821897070.post-29488932730307888042011-09-06T10:47:57.817-04:002011-09-06T10:47:57.817-04:00I agree that this is a great way to get an overvie...I agree that this is a great way to get an overview of a piece's structure, which is really necessary to understand it at all.<br /><br />I remember as a little kid when I suddenly realized that I actually could hold the whole structure of the first movement of Beethoven's 5th in my head and follow it from beginning to end, and that it actually made logical semantic sense in the same way that a long sentence does, rather than just being a continuous stream of arbitrary music that happened to end at some point. It was a real epiphany. Enabling people to get that same sense of a piece's structure is a great thing.dfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16523251716744122695noreply@blogger.com