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Although we must be impressed by the enormous accruement of new elements of vocabulary in the areas of pitch, rhythm, timbre, and so forth, I sense at the same time the loss of a majestic unifying principle in much of our recent music. - George Crumb Quotes

Although we must be impressed by the enormous accruement of new elements of vocabulary in the areas of pitch, rhythm, timbre, and so forth, I sense at the same time the loss of a majestic unifying principle in much of our recent music.

Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century. - George Crumb Quotes

Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century.

American Composer

In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music. - George Crumb Quotes

In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.

American Composer Nature

This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country. - George Crumb Quotes

This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country.

American Composer Country

Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature. - George Crumb Quotes

Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.

American Composer Music

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic. - George Crumb Quotes

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

American Composer Present

An American or European composer, for example, now has access to the music of various Asian, African, and South American cultures. - George Crumb Quotes

An American or European composer, for example, now has access to the music of various Asian, African, and South American cultures.

American Composer Example

My younger son is a rock archivist practically; I'm sure things have filtered out of that - it's in the air in this house. - George Crumb Quotes

My younger son is a rock archivist practically; I'm sure things have filtered out of that - it's in the air in this house.

One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past. - George Crumb Quotes

One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past.

American Composer Culture

If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries. - George Crumb Quotes

If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.

American Composer History

I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics. - George Crumb Quotes

I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics.

American Composer Composers

I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures. - George Crumb Quotes

I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.

American Composer People

Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system. - George Crumb Quotes

Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.

American Composer Music

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child. - George Crumb Quotes

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

American Composer Future

Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today. - George Crumb Quotes

Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today.

American Composer Crisis

Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche. - George Crumb Quotes

Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche.

American Composer Composers

Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years. - George Crumb Quotes

Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years.

American Composer

In general, I feel that the more rationalistic approaches to pitch-organization, including specifically serial technique, have given way, largely, to a more intuitive approach. - George Crumb Quotes

In general, I feel that the more rationalistic approaches to pitch-organization, including specifically serial technique, have given way, largely, to a more intuitive approach.

An interesting practice in music since the atonal period of the Viennese composers has been the widespread use of a few tiny pitch cells. - George Crumb Quotes

An interesting practice in music since the atonal period of the Viennese composers has been the widespread use of a few tiny pitch cells.

American Composer Composers

Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure. - George Crumb Quotes

Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure.

American Composer Diversity

Apart from these broader cultural influences which contribute to the shaping of our contemporary musical psyche, we also have to take into account the rather bewildering legacy of the earlier twentieth-century composers in the matter of compositional technique and procedure. - George Crumb Quotes

Apart from these broader cultural influences which contribute to the shaping of our contemporary musical psyche, we also have to take into account the rather bewildering legacy of the earlier twentieth-century composers in the matter of compositional technique and procedure.

The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general. - George Crumb Quotes

The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.

American Composer Influence

The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make. - George Crumb Quotes

The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make.

American Composer

I am optimistic about the future of music. - George Crumb Quotes

I am optimistic about the future of music.

American Composer Future

I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish. - George Crumb Quotes

I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish.

American Composer

I sometimes wonder, too, if people don't have kind of a window of time when they do their best work. And anything after that is like a gift. - George Crumb Quotes

I sometimes wonder, too, if people don't have kind of a window of time when they do their best work. And anything after that is like a gift.

American Composer People

This awareness of music in its largest sense - as a world-wide phenomenon - will inevitably have enormous consequences for the music of the future. - George Crumb Quotes

This awareness of music in its largest sense - as a world-wide phenomenon - will inevitably have enormous consequences for the music of the future.

American Composer Awareness

It is easy to write unthinking music. - George Crumb Quotes

It is easy to write unthinking music.

American Composer Music

There is, to be sure, a sense of adventure and challenge in articulating our conceptions, despite the fact that we can take so little for granted; and perhaps we tend to underestimate the struggle-element in the case of the earlier composers. - George Crumb Quotes

There is, to be sure, a sense of adventure and challenge in articulating our conceptions, despite the fact that we can take so little for granted; and perhaps we tend to underestimate the struggle-element in the case of the earlier composers.

I pick up the New York Times or Time and it's talking about the latest rock group, which I'm sure is exciting to some people, but it neglects a huge area of music. - George Crumb Quotes

I pick up the New York Times or Time and it's talking about the latest rock group, which I'm sure is exciting to some people, but it neglects a huge area of music.

American Composer

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