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What I DIDN'T like about this piece:
1. each phrase, in and of itself, is far too diatonic to be "atonal".
2. phrases tended to turn around the same note and return to the same note in a rather meandering way. it stopped the piece from really gaining any impetus.
3. the piano writing was dull.
4. the cello writing was equally dull.
5. some of the contrapuntal/harmonic ideas seemed a little too happenstance
what I DID like about the piece:
1. it actually wasn't "atonal"
2. the last measures
3. every once in a while some of the harmonic frictions really DID create some beautiful ideas.
Overall, I'd say that more time was needed spent experimenting with what worked and what didn't work in this piece.
The meandering nature of the writing gives too strongly the impression of music that was just written measure by measure without thought for what preceded and what succeeded..
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"Those that know, do;
Those that understand, teach."
-Aristotle-
"toute audace engendrée par l'ignorance cesse d'être une audace et devient une maladresse"
-Debussy-
In musical criticism, when issues of craft and technical consideration are set aside, what remains is more subjective. However, until technical issues are dealt with, the subjective portion bears considerably less weight.
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