"Mind if I cut in?" - The dilemma of the unfinished work

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North Star

Quote from: jochanaan on October 27, 2014, 07:48:10 AM(I tend to agree with the "not a planet" designation; Pluto's orbit is so different from those of the other planets that I've always wondered how it could be a planet at all.  If it somehow wandered closer to the sun, it might show up as a comet...)
Pluto is definitely not a planet like Mercury, Earth, Jupiter &c. are. It's a dwarf planet consisting of ice and rock (which is very different to the terrestrial planets or the gas giants), and there's even a bigger dwarf planet than Pluto (and lots of smaller ones..).
Now, if someone composed a suite with a movement for each asteroid..
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Quote from: North Star on October 27, 2014, 09:43:09 AM
Now, if someone composed a suite with a movement for each asteroid..
Pity Stockhausen is no longer with us  :(...Licht (the seven days of the week), Klang (the 24 hours of the day), Stein? (the 145.000 objects of the asteroid belt)... :D

PaulR

Quote from: TheGSMoeller on October 25, 2014, 05:41:51 PM
Berg's Lulu - No problems whatsoever, the 3rd act was never fully scored but was, I believe, fully realized in a piano reduction. It's all Berg.
Not directly related to Lulu, but similar case in Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina (as others mentioned).  Even though it was left in a similar state (only the piano-vocal score was finished and some scenes) and finished by others, the completed versions still has some issues in terms of 'meaning'.  The problem with Rimsky-Korsakov's orchestration is that he did not just merely orchestrate it, but also re-compose it.  He also re-arranged some parts of the drama to suit his own political beliefs (being more pro-Peter the Great than Mussorgsky was).  Similar, but I think less so, with the Shostakovich edition (which is based off Pavel Lamm's critical edition and also brought up in the Pro-Peter stance, which explains why he basically just used Rimsky-Korsakov's ending which includes a reprise of the trumpets fanfares of "Peter's" troops off stage about to annihilate the "old believers" and Old Russia)

jochanaan

Quote from: North Star on October 27, 2014, 09:43:09 AM
Pluto is definitely not a planet like Mercury, Earth, Jupiter &c. are. It's a dwarf planet consisting of ice and rock...
Definitely a comet. ;D
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