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...There is no excuse for not offering Latin. ... I wouldn't know a gerund from a syntax...
...which notes follow and precede each other had become arbitrary suppositions. By his new theory of atonality, all notes were created free & equal; the sequence in which they followed each other was merely a matter of taste. An atonal melody was governed, not by the rules of musical syntax, but by the rules of eeny, meeny, miney, mo. Composer Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps became the most imitated composition of its period; Composer Schönberg's declaration of independence influenced nearly half the younger composers of Europe...
Nazi objections to Hindemith's music are based not on his race (he is guaranteed pure Aryan), but on the technical character of the music itself. Hindemith discarded the melodious romanticism of traditional German music, defied all conventions of musical syntax, did in music what James Joyce and Gertrude Stein were doing in words. To Nazi censors, who frown on everything antiRomantic, Hindemith's music was pure anarchism...
Prim Music-mentor Boulanger writes no music herself. Teaching other musicians to write is her fulltime job. In her earlier years she taught the ABC's of composition, pushed adolescent hopefuls through courses in elementary harmony and counterpoint, the grammar and syntax of music. But nowadays she ir besieged by full-fledged composers who have outgrown their schoolbooks, need expert advice on polishing off finished compositions...
Horton, said in part: "Probably the most immediate way of discovering a poet's character is determining his sensibilities. Crane was so obsessed by the idea of making a poem the immediate experience that he turned language and syntax inside...