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Old 05-15-2011, 08:02 AM   #13 (permalink)
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I kind of liked how unpredictable Ives' pieces are. Like most avant-garde music, it's very difficult to figure out what will happen next. It tends to quickly dip down into classical composition and then go into something more experimental, but then there are bits of dissonance that appear every now and then along with some atypical pauses. It's... somewhat like a roller coaster for the piano.
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