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222 Spanish music with
a universal accent
Iberia, Isaac Albéniz223 A wonderful maze of
rhythmical dexterities
El sombrero de tres picos,
Manuel de FallaMODERN
1900 –228 I go to see the shadow
you have become
Préude à l’après-midi d’un
faune, Claude Debussy232 I want women to turn
their minds to big and
difficult jobs
The Wreckers, Ethel Smyth240 An audience shouldn’t
listen with complacency
Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21,
Arnold Schoenberg246 I haven’t understood
a bar of music in my life,
but I have felt it
Le Sacre du printemps,
Igor Stravinsky252 And ever winging up
and up, our valley is his
golden cup
The Lark Ascending,
Ralph Vaughan Williams254 Stand up and take your
dissonance like a man
Symphony No. 4,
Charles Edward Ives256 I have never written
a note I didn’t mean
Parade, Erik Satie258 Life is a lot like jazz ...
it’s better when
you improvise
Rhapsody in Blue,
George Gershwin262 A mad extravaganza at
the edge of the abyss
Les Biches, Francis Poulenc263 I come with the
youthful spirit of
my country, with
youthful music
Sinfonietta, Leoš Janá cˇ ek264 Musically, there is not
a single center of gravity
in this piece
Symphonie, Op. 21,
Anton von Webern266 The only love affair
I ever had was
with music
Piano Concerto for the Left
Hand, Maurice Ravel268 Science alone can
infuse music with
youthful vigor
Ionisation, Edgard Varèse270 A nation creates music.
The composer only
arranges it
String Quartet No. 6,
Béla Viktor János Bartók272 I detest imitation. I detest
hackneyed devices
Romeo and Juliet,
Sergei Prokofiev273 Balinese music retained
a rhythmic vitality both
primitive and joyous
Tabuh-Tabuhan,
Colin McPhee274 Real music is always
revolutionary
Symphony No. 5 in D minor,
Op. 47, Dmitri Shostakovich280 My music is natural, like
a waterfall
Bachianas brasileiras,
Heitor Villa-Lobos282 Never was I listened to
with such rapt attention
and comprehension
Quartet for the End of Time,
Olivier Messiaen284 I must create order
out of chaos
A Child of Our Time,
Michael Tippett286 The music is so knit ...
that it takes you in very
strong hands and leads
you into its own world
Appalachian Spring,
Aaron Copland288 Composing is like driving
down a foggy road
Peter Grimes,
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