Word: passacaglian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...development seems always to begin with the more orthodox manner and to court the modern idiom for complexity, at the same time employing modern modes of orchestration with the usual tinklings and thumpings of percussion. The movement opens with an adagio scored for the brasses and flows into a passacaglian allegro which alone seems really successful. The composer seems to attempt a harmonious union of classical convention and contemporary complexity, but the piece at hand seemed to suffer from lack of the essential unconscious drive behind all its consciousness to put over what...
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