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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000037.txt from 2003/06

From: Oboeeee@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] [Dblrd-L] Quote of the Day
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 21:15:43 -0400

"I strive for greater simplicity and more melody. Of course, I have used
dissonance in my time, but there has been too much dissonance. . . . We want a
simpler and more melodic style for music, a simpler, less complicated emotional
state, and dissonance once again relegated to its proper place as one element
of music, contingent principally upon the meeting of the melodic lines. . . .
Music, in other words, has definitely reached and passed the greatest degree of
discord and of complexity that it is practicable for it to attain."

-Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) Russian pianist, composer