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From: rchrd@well.UUCP (rchrd = Richard Friedman)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: Tone poems
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Date: Mon, 2-Sep-85 00:26:59 EDT
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In article <472@olivee.UUCP>, greg@olivee.UUCP (Greg Paley) writes:
> 
> I feel that ultimately music makes its own expression which is 
> independent of either verbal or visual means of communication.  It
> "says something" that cannot be said by any other means, although
> a visual object or a literary work can provide the initial stimulus
> to a composer.
> 

True.  But some composers do a very good job of mimicing nature,
or the human sounds around us.
Immediately comes to mind:
   Lark Ascending, by R.Vaughan-WIlliams  (which greatly impressed
         an ornithologist friend of mine who studies bird songs)
   Arcana, by Edgard Varese   (urban sounds)
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