Pynchon's "knewspeak"

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> I.e., What examples or aspect of Bach's work. Are "Romantic"? No compulsion
> on you to respond.

It seems to me that formalistically, he embraces functionalism; 
within this, however, there are moments of transfer from rigid 
structure to what I can only call a "sentimental" structure, in 
contrast seeming like stream of consciousness.

I'm basing this on two works:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002S57/

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002NR8/

On a related search I found:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00007KMSL/

Some related concepts:

"Musical Romanticism is more style than language characterized by 
Nationalism, Realism, Impressionism, and Expressionism. It remained 
faithful to tonality and to metrical periodicity. Emotion became more 
urgent and intense as form became freer and tone color richer. 
Remaining mainly tonal, Romantic music became more chromatic, the 
melodic structure remained periodic but phrase structure became less 
regular. Music became more poetic than abstract, more melodic than 
harmonic and more organic than mosaic."

Earlier Romantic tendencies: 

JS Bach: In 1703/4 in Arnstadt, JS Bach wrote a harpsichord piece 
(capriccio) in Bb (BWV992) on his brother's joining a military band 
in Sweden. It is programmatic in content and each of the four 
movements are labelled with their meaning. There are chromatic 
passages depicting the sorrow of friends as the brother Jacob takes 
his leave. The influence of Kuhnau pieces which were known to JS Bach 
is obvious. 

http://members.tripod.com/~dorakmt/music/romantic.html

Note that if you take the latter album and play it through 
distortion, it sounds like Burzum or Atrocity.

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