Klarinet Archive - Posting 000431.txt from 2001/11

From: Bear Woodson <bearwoodson@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Beethoven "tango" and "jazz"
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 19:19:33 -0500

Hello, Klarinet List.

> Avrahm Galper wrote:
> I always think of the list when I hear the last move-
> ment of Beethoven's piano concerto #1.
> There is a middle section that sounds like Tico Tico.
> It really swings. The accompaniment is great.

Yes, the Beethoven C Major Piano Concerto's
Third Movement is a 7-Part Rondo, being:

A, B, A1, C, A2, D (with a short Cadenza), A4.

The "C Theme Section" is the fun, famous A Minor
Section, that some people call the Tango Section.

If you like this, then you might also like the "Jazz
Variation" in the Beethoven (Last) Piano Sonata No.
32, Second Movement "Theme and Variations". It
uses "Dotted Rhythms" which causes many people
who hear it, to think it is just Standard "Honky
Tonk" or "Boogey Woogey" Jazz, until you show
them who wrote it, and when!

Of course the fact that 99% of all Popular Music
is still using brain-dead Simple Chord Progressions,
that could just as easily have been written in the year
1650, doesn't help.

As a Music Theorist and a Modern Classical Com-
poser who writes in the rarely known Chromatic Func-
tional Modality System, I find it strange that the same
people who sit down and cry like babies, that demand
the latest Technology for their Medicine, Communica-
tions, Transportation and Computations, scream even
louder for "Modern" Music, but go into shock if you
give them Bartok, Hindemith, Lutoslawski, etc.!

The public just loves nurturing the lie, that the same
4 Primary Chords of Tonality, that have been in daily
use for 500 years, were Invented yesterday, when the
most recent piece of Rock Music was played.

(And you thought that the Paranoids weren't really
our to get us!) Oh, well.

Bear Woodson
Composer, Tucson, Arizona, USA

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