"L. E. Modesitt - Archform Beauty" - читать интересную книгу автора (Modesitt L E)

There weren't any, but there usually weren't. Those who had questions either saw me after class or asked
them over the link.

"We're going to be hearing and seeing a symphony from one of the great composers who bridged the
Classic and Romantic Periods with his music. Just as Bach might be considered the father of the fugue,
this composer might be considered the father of the modern symphony. The symphony we're going to
hear is generally considered a Classic symphony, although the third movement is scherzo form, rather
than minuet, and foreshadows the changes in the symphonies to come..." I could tell I'd lost them and
glanced around, picking a sleepy-looking face in the fourth row--one I knew. "Daffyd? Do you know
who the composer is?"

"Beethoven," he replied.

"That's right. We'll hear parts of his Ninth Symphony next week, and you'll be able to hear the difference.
Now... listen."

The databloc held videos of the Nyork Phil performing Beethoven's Fifth. Even though the holoviews
alternated between players and pan shots of the entire orchestra, which just showed instrumentalists
playing, I'd found that the students didn't listen as well or hear as much if I only played a straight audio.
They had to watch something to get their ears working. Music by itself meant nothing to most of them.

After the selection ended, I waited a moment before I began to speak. "The first four notes of what you
heard--da-da-da-dah--in a way they were used as an early form of resonance music. Not when they
were composed, but later." That got a few puzzled expressions. I waited before I asked, "Does anyone
know when?"

"Weren't they some form of code in the First World War? At the beginning of the InfoRev?"

"Not exactly. They did have something to do with war and symbolism. Can anyone else tell me when and
how?"

The vacant faces showed that they weren't about to provide an answer.

"During the Second World War, the British Broadcasting Corporation prefaced all its foreign language
old-time radio broadcasts with those four notes, as a symbol of victory. Those four notes also represent
the letter 'V in Morse code. So that the physical impact, as well as the meaning, make the 'V for Victory'
notes one of the first documented uses of resonance. A limited form, certainly, but..."

So far, so good. No one had fallen asleep. Not yet, anyway. I hated to think about their reactions when I
got to the later composers--like Barak and the five-part archform structure he'd invented and used for
his Concerto for Orchestra.

"... next week, we'll get to another composer whose music was also used as the basis for early
resonance motivation... For now, we'll look into the structure of the late Classic symphony, the way it
evolved from Mozart onward..."

I flipped my hair back from my face, and from there I went into examples of development, with short
excerpts from various works, mostly Mozart, since he was the most regular.

All the time, I kept thinking about Synsil, and her comments about making a living as a singer, because I