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222 Spanish music with 258 Life is a lot like jazz … 274 Real music is always
a universal accent it’s better when revolutionary
Iberia, Isaac Albéniz you improvise Symphony No. 5 in D minor,
Rhapsody in Blue, Op. 47, Dmitri Shostakovich
223 A wonderful maze of George Gershwin
rhythmical dexterities 280 My music is natural, like
El sombrero de tres picos, 262 A mad extravaganza at a waterfall
Manuel de Falla the edge of the abyss Bachianas brasileiras,
Les Biches, Francis Poulenc Heitor Villa-Lobos
MODERN 263 I come with the 282 Never was I listened to
1900–1950 youthful spirit of with such rapt attention
and comprehension
my country, with
youthful music Quartet for the End of Time,
228 I go to see the shadow Sinfonietta, Leoš Janá cˇek Olivier Messiaen
you have become
Préude à l’après-midi d’un 264 Musically, there is not 284 I must create order
faune, Claude Debussy a single center of gravity out of chaos
in this piece A Child of Our Time,
232 I want women to turn Symphonie, Op. 21, Michael Tippett
their minds to big and Anton von Webern
difficult jobs 286 The music is so knit …
The Wreckers, Ethel Smyth 266 The only love affair that it takes you in very
I ever had was strong hands and leads
240 An audience shouldn’t with music you into its own world
listen with complacency Piano Concerto for the Left Appalachian Spring,
Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21, Hand, Maurice Ravel Aaron Copland
Arnold Schoenberg
268 Science alone can 288 Composing is like driving
246 I haven’t understood infuse music with down a foggy road
a bar of music in my life, youthful vigor Peter Grimes,
but I have felt it Ionisation, Edgard Varèse Benjamin Britten
Le Sacre du printemps,
Igor Stravinsky 270 A nation creates music.
The composer only
252 And ever winging up arranges it
and up, our valley is his String Quartet No. 6,
golden cup Béla Viktor János Bartók
The Lark Ascending,
Ralph Vaughan Williams 272 I detest imitation. I detest
hackneyed devices
254 Stand up and take your Romeo and Juliet,
dissonance like a man Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony No. 4,
Charles Edward Ives 273 Balinese music retained
a rhythmic vitality both
256 I have never written primitive and joyous
a note I didn’t mean Tabuh-Tabuhan,
Parade, Erik Satie Colin McPhee
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