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Article: Understanding Stefan Wolpe's musical forms.(Critical Essay)
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- Perspectives of New Music
- Article date:
- June 22, 2002
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IF NOTES ARE ASSEMBLED, a course of direction becomes tangible" ("Any Bunch of Notes: A Lecture," 296). (1) These words from Wolpe's lecture "Any Bunch of Notes" suggest two important directions in his thinking about musical form. The last word "tangible" reaches Out toward visual forms and the temporal aspect of painting, where each new brushstroke reconstructs and re-energizes a web of visual connections and the balance between form and empty space. The opening "If notes are assembled" (where the conditional includes a tantalizing if oblique reference to charged silence--what if notes are not assembled?) suggests the remarkable individuality of Wolpe's musical forms and ...
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