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From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES)
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Subject: Re: Tone poems
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Date: Sat, 24-Aug-85 00:03:33 EDT
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hmmm. I find Holst's Planets pretty impenitrable. image-wise.
But there is mmm, Glazounov (?) "Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
music which could only be lightly wooded northern land with many
swiftly running streams in springtime.
Von Suppe's light cavalry overture, which could only be a battle with
cavalry charge, followed by picking up the dead from the field and a 
final charge.
Tschaikovsky's "Passing Parade" music (you have to be over ...45? to
know that one.
Liszt' Les Prelude could only be about fate and the ineffibleness of
it all.
"Over the Waves" could only be a skaters' waltz unless you grew up
in Minneapolis long ago and know it means "Buy Northland Ice Cream,
It's a Taste Treat Right Out of a Dream..."
All of The Seasons by Vivaldi...
There are hundreds of examples which not everyone will agree with and
many will flame as irrelevant to music.

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