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Katyia13 October 2012 8:55AM

usually the drone is not the melody

However, drones are less often used in common practice classical music, because equal temperament causes slight mistunings, which become more apparent over a drone, especially when also sustained. On the other hand, drones may be purposely dissonant, as often found in the music of Phill Niblock. The best-known drone piece in the concert repertory is the Prelude to Wagner’s Rheingold (1854) wherein the bass instruments sustain an Eb throughout the entire movement (Erickson 1975, p. 94). Later drone pieces include Loren Rush’s Hard Music (1970), Folke Rabe’s Was?? (1968), and Robert Erickson’s Down at Piraeus

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The movement of Plato?s long meditation can be seen as one of descent. In many ways the Republic is Plato getting off his high horse, descending from the heavens of rationality and righteousness, rolling up his sleeves, licking his lips and preparing to do the dirty work of governance

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