Form For Whom?
HAT’S All This About Form? contained a sub-title which misled me. Reading "The general . background against which the programmes are being designed" I looked forward to a talk on programme-arrangement from the technical and artistic viewpoint. I found myself, instead, listening to a talk on Form in Music, the preliminary talk of what looks like being an interesting series. But I wish the author of these programmes would make up his mind, before he goes any further, just what sort of’ an audience he is talking to. When he apologises for using the term "section" and tells us that "tonality" is "an extraordinarily long word," when he suggests that a "high-sounding name" like Sonata-form is apt to frighten some of us away, and encourages us to continue listening with "I know it’s tertibly difficult, but .. ."; then it seems to me that he rates his listeners as so many musical semi-morons who just happened to tune in by mistake. The idea behind the programme, on _ the other hand, was a sound one (that the basis of formal construction is repetition and contrast), and this was well illustrated in a series of excellently-chosen examples of good music which was not too highbrow to be above the heads of beginners,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 451, 13 February 1948, Page 9
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210Form For Whom? New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 451, 13 February 1948, Page 9
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