Anyone for endless resolutions to the home key? Anyone for Mozart? Well, not me. I'm tonic-ed right out. Can't take it any more.Not after Wagner, Debussy and onwards. tonalities that float, move and grow, just like life floats, moves and grows.
Mozart to me is like going to the corner of the street, looking about and the going back home again. Then visiting the chap across the road, and coming home again. Then....... off again somewhere...... and then coming right back home again. Ugh... give me Bach rather than that - he has longer lines which evolve.
Lately I've been listening to a lot of Janacek operas. Very tonic-free..... liberating... like Giant Steps was in jazz.
Surely I can't be alone in this?
Edits: 01/03/17
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Topic - Who needs home keys? And why I hate Mozart...... - andy evans 06:22:54 01/03/17 (41)
- RE: Who needs home keys? And why I hate Mozart...... - bald2 12:44:47 01/04/17 (2)
- Yes and no..... - andy evans 15:07:07 01/04/17 (1)
- Some day try Karajan's mono Cosi - jdaniel@jps.net 08:04:32 01/05/17 (0)
- RE: Who needs home keys? And why I hate Mozart...... - rbolaw 12:38:45 01/03/17 (15)
- Funny, I feel that Mozart's modulations are only rarely striking - Chris from Lafayette 14:06:27 01/03/17 (14)
- Ooooooh ... - rbolaw 19:05:56 01/03/17 (1)
- As you know, I'm never far from the dark woods! [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 00:08:33 01/04/17 (0)
- RE: Funny, I feel that Mozart's modulations are only rarely striking - Travis 16:04:54 01/03/17 (10)
- Was responding to a point in the previous post - did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed today? [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 19:25:54 01/03/17 (9)
- RE: Oh, you thought I was awake. nt - Travis 07:46:58 01/04/17 (8)
- I guess I've now been disabused of that notion [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 08:59:54 01/04/17 (7)
- RE: I'm not into disabusing. nt - Travis 12:13:06 01/04/17 (6)
- And yet, somehow, I've managed to become disabused [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 13:21:54 01/04/17 (5)
- As punishment: - rbolaw 14:36:34 01/05/17 (4)
- Sorry - no can do (no time right now). And besides. . . - Chris from Lafayette 10:07:32 01/06/17 (3)
- Right, and Mozart's are the LATTER - rbolaw 15:13:17 01/07/17 (2)
- Wow! - so Schubert is chopped liver? - Chris from Lafayette 18:01:49 01/07/17 (1)
- Mozart came first. - rbolaw 14:45:00 01/10/17 (0)
- Really cool one in the 3rd mov't of the PC 25. nt - jdaniel@jps.net 15:08:51 01/03/17 (0)
- I too have no affinity toward Mozart - banpuku 11:20:02 01/03/17 (0)
- Mozart isn't my favorite composer either, but, certainly, he has his moments - Chris from Lafayette 10:58:01 01/03/17 (0)
- Mozart et al - Amphissa 10:10:22 01/03/17 (6)
- No - I don't mean atonal, just not tethered to home key - andy evans 10:42:07 01/03/17 (5)
- RE: " it's a toss up between early Mozart and Hello Dolly..." - Ivan303 17:37:22 01/03/17 (0)
- Here's a good one... - D Harvey 12:44:24 01/03/17 (0)
- RE: No - I don't mean atonal, just not tethered to home key - Amphissa 12:03:13 01/03/17 (2)
- Wow! Kind of Kurt Weill meets The Simpsons - andy evans 12:12:51 01/03/17 (1)
- Well, most of their stuff is not that weird - Amphissa 14:50:56 01/03/17 (0)
- There will come a day when you will want a home key [nt] - Amphissa 09:50:22 01/03/17 (3)
- Sure... - D Harvey 09:52:08 01/03/17 (2)
- The joke had to do with lost keys and also old age [nt] - Amphissa 10:11:37 01/03/17 (1)
- Ah...my bad. (nt) - D Harvey 12:22:16 01/03/17 (0)
- You're not alone. - D Harvey 08:56:06 01/03/17 (1)
- You are so right...... - andy evans 09:10:25 01/03/17 (0)
- Ha ha, there are some lovely exceptions though, do try the K 379 G Major Violin Sonata - jdaniel@jps.net 08:27:11 01/03/17 (0)
- Returning frequently to the 'home key' is very comforting.... - Ivan303 07:15:06 01/03/17 (5)
- When you get even older you don't even bother to leave home... - andy evans 09:12:33 01/03/17 (4)
- Wait - isn't that minimalism? [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 10:17:33 01/03/17 (2)
- Here in Califiornia, as of Jan. 1, 2017,... - Ivan303 09:23:41 01/03/17 (0)