Word: istar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost sure to reveal numerous influences of dance music, both direct and indirect. The last section of Debussy's "La Mer", for instance, employs the rhythms of jazz in an unmistakable fashion. But more interesting than this are the scherzo of the Beethoven Third Symphony and D'Indy's "Istar" Variations. These forms lead one to a consideration of an aspect of the relationship between popular art and "intellectual" music which bears on the whole development of the large conventional instrumental forms...
Died. Paul Marie Theodore Vincent d'Indy, 80, French composer (Istar Wallenstein, Fervaal), pupil of the late Cesar Franck, co-founder (1894) and director since 1911 of the Paris Schola Cantorum; in Paris...