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Flames in HarmonyConfined, once again, to the house, this time with a painful sciatica, I was listening to a Beethoven symphony, the First as I recall, when I realised that I never could work out why classical music (classical in the widest sense from Baroque to modern era) sounds quite the way it does; complexity has much to do with it but in what way. Thus, with Google at hand in my Smart Phone I rummaged through the Web and came up with the answer, one I'm sure you know, but one of those pieces of information that has long escaped me. The answer is: counterpoint. I had come across the word before but had always thought it meant something to do with beats in a bar (musically speaking - not beatniks supping ale in a public house). If you have not come across the idea before although you will have, but just didn't know it, counterpoint involves the composer thinking of a powerful musical theme which can be developed in lots of ways for lots of instrument and which could well stand on its own as a subst

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Flames in HarmonyConfined, once again, to the house, this time with a painful sciatica, I was listening to a Beethoven symphony, the First as I recall, when I realised that I never could work out why classical music (classical in the widest sense from Baroque to modern era) sounds quite the way it does; complexity has much to do with it but in what way. Thus, with Google at hand in my Smart Phone I rummaged through the Web and came up with the answer, one I'm sure you know, but one of those pieces of information that has long escaped me. The answer is: counterpoint. I had come across the word before but had always thought it meant something to do with beats in a bar (musically speaking - not beatniks supping ale in a public house). If you have not come across the idea before although you will have, but just didn't know it, counterpoint involves the composer thinking of a powerful musical theme which can be developed in lots of ways for lots of instrument and which could well stand on its own as a subst