>Insistent and yet ultimately, as its title indicates, a paean to futility, “in vain” was intended as a protest against, or at least an elegy about, the victory of far-right factions in the 1999 Austrian elections. Ears alert to Mr. Haas’s political interests (he is Austrian) will spot a battle-ready passage in “dark dreams”: a beat first in the woodblock, then the drum, then the timpani that evokes the Prussian-style marches of his 2004 Cello Concerto.
>In “dark dreams,” the moment is quickly engulfed by more of those sliding trills; even to call it a protest — against militarism, fascism, whatever — seems an overstatement of the helpless modesty of the reference. Mr. Haas, like many of us, seems sadly resigned to being able merely to glance at injustice and pain before turning his attention elsewhere.
Is there a contemporary composer who isn't a complete faggot?
Noah Flores
Is Omnifenix the only good think Psathas has done?
Xavier Campbell
Yes but not even that is good so he is actually a real shitter
It's all just pattern recognition and optimization. If you see a scalar pattern you can usually just read the first and last note as well any accidentals, chords like major 7ths or minor 6ths for example have a distinct shape that's really easy to recognize at a glance, there's patterns like alberti bass where you just have to read the first chord and how many times it repeats until it either ceases or modulates. It's why people swear by exercise books like Hanon, they familiarize you with how various figurations look on paper and how they feel in the hands and running through them over and over again is the most surefire way to implant them in your memory. Once you can immediately identify any individual interval in any key you can start memorizing the various chords and their variations/inversions but the most important thing is to just keep doing it, most good sight readers have read hundreds of pieces and seen like 95% of the patterns found in any given piece implemented elsewhere in many different manners.
Ryder Lee
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Luke Thomas
If u count A minor it would probably be sibs 4 (the best sibs symphony)
