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Month: February, 2024
“Driveway“ (1872 – 1873)
Vincent van Gogh
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if a quartet is a piece of music for four instruments,
if a quartet is also a piece of music consisting of
more than one segment of music, movements –
two definitions just to confuse things – a quintet is,
in the same manner, a piece of music written for
five instruments, as well as a piece of music
consisting of more than one segment of music,
as a trio is for three, a sextet, yes, a sextet, is
for six, and so forth
any of these groupings can nevertheless do
nocturnes, tangos, ballades, pieces of music
consisting of only one segment, movements
here is perhaps the most influential quintet of
all time, Schubert’s D956, you will have heard
it, at least some of it, somewhere, probably, as
part of the cultural heritage of the West, should
your heritage be of the West, hearing it is as if
coming upon, musically speaking, any one
of, for instance, Van Gogh’s masterpieces,
see above, we still bathe in its, their,
however subconscious, impact
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