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| | '''Edward Elgar''' (1857-1934) was an English (non-microtonal) composer. His name might not be one that immediately springs to mind at the mention of microtonal music, but he merits a place here for a remark he made in a 1914 presidential speech to the Union of Graduates in Music. Displaying the complex blend of conservatism and progressivism which was such a feature of his musical character, he rails against the 'monkey tricks' of recent compositional trends, then adds: |
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| <div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">The name of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Elgar|Edward Elgar]] is not one that immediately springs to mind at the mention of microtonal music, but he merits a place here for a remark he made in a 1914 presidential speech to the Union of Graduates in Music. Displaying the complex blend of conservatism and progressivism which was such a feature of his musical character, he rails against the 'monkey tricks' of recent compositional trends, then adds:
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| (Source: 'Edward Elgar - A Creative Life' by Jerrold Northrop Moore, OUP 1987, ISBN 0-19-284014-2, page 663.)</pre></div> | | (Source: 'Edward Elgar - A Creative Life' by Jerrold Northrop Moore, OUP 1987, ISBN 0-19-284014-2, page 663.) |
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