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How Classical Composers Move?

Latest Post: March 28, 2011 at 3:50 PM

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This one is partly inspired by the Painting Music topic. The question is basically this: if you imagine various classical composers moving in space as a reflection of how you perceive their style&overall aesthetic, what kind of motion would that be?

for instance: Bach surely must be walking, Mozart probably runs, while Beethoven leaps...

Schubert hops on one leg
Chopin tiptoes
Wagner triple jumps
Ravel hovers
Prokofiev hand walks
Scriabin wanders
Shostakovich marches
Stravinsky break dances
Schnittke walks backwards

I can't figure out Haydn...

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Mark A. Lackey, new dad, loves organic cooking, master of a...

March 28, 2011 at 3:50 PM

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Given his celebrated wit, perhaps we should identify Haydn with Monty Python's fictitious Ministry of Silly Walks.
At a more substantial level, though, he moves with consummate grace, and yet with a liberal dose of the unexpected. He's an unusually inventive waltzing partner, perhaps. Or the lead in a tango, if we don't mind the anachronism. A tango through the Age of Reason. Aha!
~m