Talk:Edmund Rubbra
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[edit] Twelve-tone technique
(Which is the proper article, by the way- avoid redirects!)
Removed a polemical sentence. There are works - mostly in his shelf drawer to my knowledge, including the discarded piano concerto opus 30 I think? - in which Rubbra approached and/or used the twelve-tone technique in one way or another; and he was one of many composers who "refused to use it". How this fit in with Glock's tenure at the BBC, with whom it was or was not fashionable, and other matters- indeed, calling it fashionable is something that requires considerable explanation and should not be done at the beginning of an encyclopedia at -all-, it's rather an in-joke; fashionable among composers perhaps (I like many works composed written using the technique, and am at most an ex-composer) but not (yet?) the general public (some works by Schoenberg, Webern and Berg work very well, and I will say because of good use of the technique- I am not making a polemical anti-serial case here, I am saying that claiming it was fashionable immediately announces "I'm talking to my own audience, because it certainly wasn't fashionable among people you knew, was it?" to most readers... which is rather anti-Wikipedia right there...) - (edit to finish the sentence *g*) ... how that fits in with Glock, composer culture in the 20th century, ...- much too large a topic.
getting back to Rubbra: he did not refuse to be diverted apparently- he tried the method, and decided not to use it later. That's a diversion and a decision. A small difference and not worthy of an opening paragiraffe distinction; instead, I think, worthy of opening paragraph -omission-, making Rubbra someone who cannot be brought in into the Stubborn Won't Even Taste the Green Eggs and Ham Army... - hence, my deletion. Schissel | Sound the Note! 20:00, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
