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Old Apr 14 2008, 4:08 PM
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Originally Posted by spherenine View Post
Yeah.

The Rite of Spring would be noise if it were absolute music.
I'm afraid I don't understand your point.

In what way would being "absolute music" suddenly make Sacre du Printemps noise rather than music?
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