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Stevemc90 -
You sound like you are on the right track with the excellent works you are studying. I have been doing a little study of Pierrot -- Der Mondfleck and a few other works. As you probably know it is remarkable how "old" the music is. The counterpoint techniques, the way the instrumental groups serve as choruses or contrasting recitatives remind me of the late Rennaissance styles and Monteverdi -- despite the radically different tonal language (well, the exception being possibly some Gesualdo and a one or two esoteric schools of polyphony - eg Duke de Berry (?) sponsored some wild compositions). So, it seems using the song forms is an excellent idea -- you may want to look at Stravinsky's Agon later on just because of its extensive (and somewhat unconscious) indebtness to the Greek poetic forms (I also believe at this time he did some free arrangements of Gesualdo and extensive review of Monteverdi during this compositional period.) and of course how well Stravinsky takes dances forms and makes them abstract musical structures but yet you can hear its "dance/ballet" roots.
In any case, can't wait to hear what you come up with.
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