Sir Mustapha
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Posted: Aug. 13 2010, 08:42 |
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Quote (nightspore @ Aug. 13 2010, 01:43) | I'm not going to enter into any debate about "prog", as I consider it pointless; but "Music from the Balcony" is actually quite structured/formal, with regard to its overall architecture: for example, you get that ten-note melody I've mentioned before; it returns with variations, and then finally it's recapitulated in its original form just before the end. And the same applies with the other main themes. I think it's the chaotic-sounding jungle noises etc that tend to fool people into thinking "Balcony" is unstructured. |
Yes, there are recapitulations and variations, but they don't always seem very logical -- like that recurring fast section with saxophones and the guitar wailing on top, which appears at the most unexpected places. And the breaking in of sounds and pseudo-jazz/pseudo-blues intrusions are all quite subversive, not necessarily in form, but in content.
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