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    “Rhythm“ (2008) 

             Romul Nutiu

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here’s Book 2 of Debussy’s “Préludes”,

for a total of 24, as many as in Chopin’s 

undivided set, his Opus 28, but with 

different motivations, different musical 

imperatives, which I won’t get into here 

for being, for the present, too abstruse

here are three, meanwhile, by George 

Gershwin, just for kicks, his only three 

what are the differences

you tell me

R ! chard

psst: Gershwin, to my mind, adds, 

          indeed stresses, rhythm, 

          fascinatin’, as it were, rhythm,

          he’s no longer as unrelentingly

          meditative, serious, as was

          Debussy, a distinguishing

          characteristic of the

          increasingly American 20th

          Century