One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past.
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Numerous recordings of non-Western music are readily available, and live performances by touring groups can be heard even in our smaller cities.George Crumb
Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today.
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Although we must be impressed by the enormous accruement of new elements of vocabulary in the areas of pitch, rhythm, timbre, and so forth, I sense at the same time the loss of a majestic unifying principle in much of our recent music.
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The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make.
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I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.
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