Wednesday, August 13, 2003 @1:12 AM
Saint Saens' cello concerto in A minor totally drove me buts y'day when i analysed it. he's just extremely thematically unified that we couldn't find any "thematic metamorphosis" through the concerto. and the 1st theme is totally stuck in my head. the triplet thing, with off beat accents and stuff. he just has 8 themes that so totally doesn not link unless you really squeeze motifs out of it. of which, i wouldn't even call them motifs. sorry saint saens, you can't beat Liszt in thematic transformation. he's the ultimate. the master of the art of thematic transformation - Liszt. we sorta did tchaikovsky piano and violin concerto last week. i must say that tchai has the gift for lyricism. his themes are just astoundingly magnificent and glorious, especially that 107 measures of the opening of the piano concerto. though it doesn't link to any other parts of the concerto, that introduction is just simply so glorious. and no, the soloist doesn't bang the chords, he embraces the chords written for the solo piano. it's just wonderful. a pity tchai doesn't structure his work. really a pity. (i know a lot of sweeping statements are made here. just ignore them if u don't agree with it.)
studying today was quite productive. gonna do another 2 essays cos i really don't have much time left. don't even dare to count down. as i fade into the shadow of my pile of books, i'll leave you guys with one quote.
"Learning how to learn is life's most important skill" --- Tony Buzan
God Bless all!
