Modern composers

[Haffner]

have to say Sarkosian confirms all my suspicions about Nietzsche only having value to insecure adolescents.  When is the last time you saw a pretentious buffoon quoting David Hume?

laughing

Hey, I've been there, b.


I had no idea anyone reported that post to the moderator. I just let it go; the guy just seemed to want to be "right", so I let him have his victory. I'll bet most of you would have done the same thing. I feel left out, maybe I was one of the few whom didn't report the post (laughing harder(. In any case, I'm flattered and honoured at the support you folks have given me. I'm actually a little bit misty-eyed.

[uffeviking]

One so far! The other four are still rolling on the floor laughing their posteriors off!

My post refers to the number of Moderators having received and read the 'report to moderator', not GMG posters! 

[knight66]

Lis, It seems someone else has just pressed the report button. I do think the replies have been straight forward in outlining what people did not think appropriate about 'that post'. Anything I would add at this stage would be redundant.

Mike

[Haffner]

One so far! The other four are still rolling on the floor laughing their posteriors off!

My post refers to the number of Moderators having received and read the 'report to moderator', not GMG posters! 

Hey, let me in on the joke please, Lis  !


Also, since I seem to be in the dark as a general rule, could someone please list (or make a topic of) whom exactly are the "lesser members" on GMG. Preferably one of the "Better members". I just want to to know whom I'm allowed to schmooze with, since I don't want to end up getting kicked around by the big mean "Betters". Boo-Hoo!


_{^{laughing like a sick, tripping hyena}}

[uffeviking]

Andy: It's this post:

"Gads!    Now there's a big wad of hauteur, eh?

There members here who know more about this, that, the other, or many topics.  Also, some might be more rational, charming, and/or richer.  But I would never be so crass as to refer to "lesser" or "greater" members.

Of those who consider themselves the "greater" members, I would ask that you do one or more of the following:

Stifle your arrogance
Go somewhere else
Sodomize yourself with a splintery broom handle.

[Haffner]

Andy: It's this post:

"Gads!    Now there's a big wad of hauteur, eh?

There members here who know more about this, that, the other, or many topics.  Also, some might be more rational, charming, and/or richer.  But I would never be so crass as to refer to "lesser" or "greater" members.

Of those who consider themselves the "greater" members, I would ask that you do one or more of the following:

Stifle your arrogance
Go somewhere else
Sodomize yourself with a splintery broom handle.

I'm dying here. Someone please sell me a "Greater Member" steroid packet! Or at least some "Better Member Horny Goat Weed"
Woo-HOOOO!

[lukeottevanger]

It's not the size of the member, it's [insert...no....enter....er.... write missing words here]

[Haffner]

It's not the size of the member, it's [insert...no....enter....er.... write missing words here]

_{^{dying again}}

[The new erato]

It's not the size of the member, it's [insert...no....enter....er.... write missing words here]

What a penetrating comment!

[lukeottevanger]

Well, I do try to rise to the ocassion


but


Enough! Too many innuendos from me for one day.....

[Haffner]

Well, I do try to rise to the ocassion


but


Enough! Too many innuendos from me for one day.....

(smiling) Modern composers...

[jochanaan]

Thanks, guys, for the--um--sizeable laughs! [bite tongue, jochanaan!]

[Appalled]

There

There are

Sodomize yourself with a splintery broom handle.

Who reported this to the Civil Rights organisations?
Homophobic insult is liable.

[ChamberNut]

Welcome to GMG, Appalled.   

[Topaz]

Homophobic insult is liable.

"Liable" to what?

[Brian]

Best...thread...ever...

[greg]

"Liable" to what?

do you really wanna know?.......

[quintett op.57]

@ quintett, re the Liszt.

The point is that it floats around many keys without choosing a central one, not that it has none at all. It isn't at all hard to find a variety of strongly suggested tonal centres in the piece, but they rarely last beyond a bar or two, and the use of whole tone and chormatic elements makes movement in between them rather fluid. The title means, I suppose, 'Bagatelle without a [single] tonal centre' (and is thus comparable with a title such as Bagatelle in C major), but, as there is an understandable wish to seek out atonal music as far back as possible, it is often read as meaning 'Atonal Bagatelle'. The two aren't the same.

I don't completely agree.
I regard this piece as partly atonal. Most of it is like you've said. But there are moment of true atonality.

[lukeottevanger]

Give me bar numbers - I don't see any such atonal passages.    Coincidentally, I recently read a description of the piece which described it in exactly the terms I did - as always being tonal from moment to moment, but with that tonality shifting every bar. I'll have to try to remember where I read it - somewhere reputable, anyway!

[karlhenning]

I am sure all your reading is reputable, Luke