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It occurs to me that I may have been a little unfair towards Strini in the last post. Lord knows, I get a little worked up when people disparage modernism. Their arguments against experimentation tend to be irrational and often hateful. Besides, it’s difficult to summarize the history of music in a couple of sentence fragments. So, in the spirit of fairness, let’s take a quick look at what he says about the Renaissance composers.

Go Strini!

Polyphony, as sung by increasingly expert choirs of monks, becomes enormously complex and increasingly hard to cram into modal theory.

Touché, my fine friend, touché.
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