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Will the turn ever return?

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« on: September 28, 2015, 09:35:27 pm »

A modern example - sort of . . .

Opening of the Inspector Montalbano theme.



Not its classical usage, of course.
No, but originating in / deriving from it nonetheless, surely? - on the grounds of which it might still be said that the great big world continues to turn (pace Nathaniel Davis Ayer [1887 – 1952] /  Percival Davis aka F.[?] Clifford Grey [1887-1941]).

Also, for another example of the turn in 20th-century action, try the "Beedle dee-dee-dee-dee" figure in the song Two Ladies from Cabaret (John Harold Kander [1927- ] / Fred Ebb [1928-2004]) as musically victimised in the unpronounceable (if not quite unplayable) piano work Cabaraphrase, described by its composer as less of an operatic transcription and more of an apoplectic transgression...
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