[net.music.classical] In Defense of Melody

randy@utcsrgv.UUCP (Randall S. Becker) (05/21/84)

Forgive me but....

	The following is a description of the Music of the Ainur [1.]:

	"..one was deep and wide and beautiful, but slow and blended
	with an immeasurable sorrow, from which its beauty chiefly 
	came. The other had now achieved a unity of its own; but it
	was loud, and vain, and endlessly repeated; and it had little
	harmony, but rather a clamorous unison as of many trumpets
	braying upon a few notes...."

	I begin to wonder whether Tolkien was consciously drawing
	a parallel between the style of Wagner and the music of
	the Ainu, Melkor.


1. Tolkien, J.R.R. The Silmarillion, pp16-17.

-- 
		Randall S. Becker

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