Palestrina’s masses summarize all the preceding years of polyphony. And they haunt all subsequent western music—right up through Wagner. They tap this music on the shoulder, to remind it: “This is where you came from.”
Baldwin Tavinger, Toward a Rhetoric of Number.
“Jeremy wants to be talked about, Linda. That’s what it amounts to.”
Jane Chetwynde, The Have-Not Faradays.
“So you laughed out loud, you say? Well, that must have been somewhat noisy. Hmmm?”
Sebastian Sleeve, The Random Walk and Other Stories.
Modernism was the announcement of a new kind of barrenness.
Lajos Munczi, Casting Shadows.
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