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(A short story of 1752 words)

Must Sound Genuine

Literary

by Jonathan Taylor


A Soviet composer is trying to write the perfect Socialist Realist symphony, before a knock on the door.


Opening, Fig. 1: 6/8 Adagio, C Minor, pianissimo-possible rising to pianissimo, and gradually to piano: low strings, contra-bassoon, symbolising Tsarist regime; tetratones protesting on Bb clarinets, symbolising oppressed proletariat...

... or perhaps not tetratones: that might sound too dissonant, too much like he is revelling in discords, too – God save him – bourgeois-formalist. Even worse: it might sound like he was associating the progressive forces of proletarian defiance with Western modernism. Govno. Shit...
 

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