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“Heard melodies are sweet,” Keats wrote, “but those unheard are sweeter,” and for Joan Aiken they often provided the inspiration for stories full of music which the reader can hear only in his imagination. She invented some marvellous musical creations, like a tune which when whistled or sung brings a cardboard cut-out garden to life, […]
Lovely extracts you’ve included here, Lizza! As a musician I’d heard about the recommendation for rationalising the inefficient duplication of instruments and themes in orchestral music, though I hadn’t realised it was Joan who had written the parody.
By the way, whole tone music, even fugues, should sound inoffensive to the ear, Debussy-like in fact, rather than an awful cacophony: dodecaphonic compositions would have been more apt. But I expect Joan knew that, really!
Thank you for your informative musical response, I’m way out of my depth here, and can only assume Joan was employing her mischievous sense of humour!