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American Cacophony

Microtonal mayhem misses the mark a triple concerto for sirens, drones & bullets groaning ghosts pluck piano strings extramusical praise: present (& past/future) we're going around & round (sings the flute) 0:00 constant vivace Alcotts double IV. played Ives=crusty old coot percussive violence syncopated strings: polytonal dances Moody barlines go barhopping 741 ideas ; 21 woods; 1904 eons background music a sparkling concert hall Whitman spits on Emerson 16:23 (viola), contrasted 1947 Ralph's fragments keys to the sky rocky jazz Pox on The Fox Daddy contra (No.5 edition) Sneering atonal waltzes (from a glum mustache) “Who Cares If You Listen?” Elliott got Carter (yearning for atonal spirit) agitated woodwinds crushed by percussion Symphony 20:02 Concord, Concord, Concord (sonata?) please the phrase please phrase your phases; this ain't transcendentalism Magnificent Desolation! a universal string trio: Hawthorne approves insert Feldmanesque pointillism (very slow, very quiet) notate a Super Magnum--rotate a Super Maggot supersymmetric pianos pulsate tremendous trumpet triumphs advanced anticlimax (requires spacetime) Adagio seeks strings ethereal, hear the sacrifice “Hello Friends!” blurts the bearded babbler listen: Cageian silent shock enter: Varese sound masses! sodelicious...Here! optional glissandos Lenny dances on the smog Gershwin’s getting rhythm Central Park serenades the Dark Unanswered Question Mennin & Sessions, et al dying after Symphony #9 sloppy sonatas wait for Waldo counterpoint delayed the clarinet knows the string quartet begs for an exorcism major/minor note spinning bombastic post-war movements Obviously, sharing...... excellent musical time in light seconds (1840–60) performers: revealed clusters of desolate Americanism But here....1 Reply answers go quickly on a Mysterious Mountain unanswered (galactic) question “music on my funeral… thank you for posting”

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