Russian traditional music
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"It is some time since Brahms has definitely come into his own and escaped from the dangerous championship of the anti-Wagnerian Brahmsian, as well as from the helpless fulminations of the people whose only approach to music is through the theatre and literature. But certain features of Brahms’s style still seem to lie beyond the range of current criticism. In recent judgements of the Tragic Overture, I cannot trace the slightest progress in intelligence since the days when it was a new work. My analysis of it, as issued by me at Reid Concerts, and as now published by the Oxford University Press (Essays in Musical Analysis , Vol. II, p.151), began with a discussion of the meaning of tragedy in music and literature. This was rash. I was as helpless as Huckleberry Finn arguing with Jim the nigger. Cats have a right to talk like cats ; but Frenchmen, being men, ought to talk like other people. And so Brahms ought to write Russian music. Let ’s begin again on a clean slate."--Essays in Musical Analysis by Donald Tovey |
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