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Originally Posted by hat and bread
HVB is pleasant enough and all that, but music without any harmonic content (is that even the right word? I mean music with only single melodic lines. No chords no drone) can't hold my attention for that long. I have the same problem with solo sax (trumpet, flute, whatever) recordings.
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I know what you mean, I can't abide many purely melodic things... it's only really certain plainsong (that word used fairly broadly) that does it for me. I think given what you've said above, you really should check out Bruckner's Motets. I often find 'modernist' pieces (12-tone/ avant-garde) aren't really fitting for 'elegiac' music, much better to express other things. Not a hard and fast rule, by any stretch....