June 20, 2011
Extreme complication is contrary to art.
Claude Debussy
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December 22, 2011
“Gamelan music, Debussy wrote, ‘contained all gradations, even some that we no longer know how to name, so that tonic and dominant were nothing more than empty phantoms of use to clever little children.’”
The Rest is Noise, Alex Ross
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