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Anyone Else Love Bartok?


LayneGreene

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Very definitely. His music had an extremely creative way of using the natural harmonic properties of the pianoforte. You can hear, I think, the other strings in sympathy to the ones that are being struck. While there's a "tremendous number of notes" flying at you, to my ears they form shapes ... short intervals during which many notes sound or resonate at the same time and are best regarded as a lump of sound. (Better put: "a single sound.") I think that was very much his intention. I don't think that this music would sound anywhere near as good if played on an electronic keyboard, or even a lesser piano. You need that fourteen-foot Steinway or Bösendorfer ... (P.S. "Hey, Santa... y'know, my front room's big enough...") ... :)

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