Well, like Fred, I found the footnote fascinating, & the comment on
Janacek, whose String Quartets I am coming to love.
This point is interesting to me with reference to the quartets of
Daniel Jones -- romantically modern in their Welsh way....
Doug
On 31-Dec-07, at 3:27 PM, Roger Day wrote:
> the cadences of all the various Englishes are different also. I wonder
> if Patel means English English, which as chalk to cheese compared to,
> say, Welsh English etc. It's PC to say British English but as we all
> know, Britain doesn't really exist.
>
> Roger
>
> On Dec 31, 2007 10:09 PM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> From a footnote [p.242]in Oliver Sacks's new book, Musicophilia...
>>
>> 'What makes the music of Sir Edward Elgar sound so distinctively
>> English?'
>> they [Iversen, Patel and Ohgushi of the Neurosciences Institute] ask.
>> 'What
>> makes the music of Debussy sound so French?
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