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In other words, we may view Strauss as a sort of modern impressionist tone-painter, and so get the best view of his pictures. Indeed, cacophony is alone a most suggestive subject. In the first place the term is always relative, never absolute, relative in the historic period of the composition, or relative as to the purpose. One can hardly say that any combination of notes is unusable.
National to the core, he embodied in his music the finest qualities of the folk-song, and noble tone-painter that he was he excelled his predecessors in his employment of the orchestra as a means of dramatic characterization.
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