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PASSION OF THE ‘CLOSED’ PRNCTELE
exrANSON Of Tu “OPEN PRINGLE
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1sFOREWORD
Owe wouLD nF tempted to deste Mr Thoope Davie
(aftr the conventional manne:) a6 w rising young compose,
‘wer it not fr the fact athe has sen, His msi for thos
Cebraed. plays at the. Edinburgh Fesval—The Three
Estates, The Gentle Shepherd and The Highland Pair—for
the Stratford productions of Hemy YIU! and King Lear, 8
ll as other Works, hat won not only respect Bat alfction.
‘The reason ofcourse, that ME Thorpe Davie knows pre
how best to set out his music so that it may be
inteligible, Wis mosial im, for which he is much ia ote
sgatitide, is clcty and not obscurity. We may suspect that
his Scots antecodeats have had something to do with this
‘Atany rate Scolland i confident that opinion which places is
‘among tho leadors of Scottish art represents enlightenment
Clearly the strecture and design of muse i 4 mueian's
business. The erative artist Enows so much more about it
than the pedant or (are we say?) the eric. The dieaty is
{hat few composer ae happy in itercy expression. This one
‘san exception.
‘Therfore the student may tum to this work with coot-
dence He will ad that much stock-in-trade information on
“Tor is composed of non sequturs which in tars origina
fin fallacies. Tho emotional background 16 sonata, the rela:
tion—as inthe conceto—betwoen hubs of performance and
‘musical syle, the qualies of Haydn, Mozart and Purell Ga
partials), the neces for anaes by eat rather than by
‘je these are some ofthe mater to receive treatment which
‘in caly stimulate the reader. So much music is eially
Feviewed that no one who ae rea this work with eae til
feel il at casein ropard to the design of sie
1ts ten quoted ecin. The Tovey adit wil od
Mar pe Dave congenial company. He wil ecomnise mc
noch that Tovey aid not ay. 18
that Tovey oid say and cay i tty
din Tus ook goes forward, even though in some res
itis bound to go backward
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INTRODUCTION
EVER SINcE THERE have been men who have de
‘berataly sot out to compass plese of musi, end to give them
‘more oF less permanent form by recording them in wating,
they have been faced with ono problam above al others, Tat
problem arses at some point during the progress ofthe com-
Postion, and sated badly, it takes the forma of the question
hae shall Ido next?”
Tn some petiods of musical history, varios dierent st
factory Hinds of solution have boon found. At other dines
‘composers have teen less sure of themselves, Indeod, prac
tealy the whole of one centurythe seventeenth var