Its appearance is not vanity or clever self-quotation.
How might the film "[allow] Mr. Spielberg to indulge in a minor vice of self-quotation," according to the article?
But then Strauss's final self-quotation, the transfiguration theme from "Death and Transfiguration" (that first piece of his that I ever heard), sounds out lovingly, and the two larks ascend ever higher.
Not that I am about to upbraid the well-upholstered master of the mic for self-quotation, having begun the piece you are currently reading by revisiting an earlier triumph.
Such self-quotations are difficult to reconcile with the overall mood, although the energy of the piece carries it along.
The score is infested with satires and self-quotations, including a reprise of Shostakovich's greatest hit, the "Song of the Counterplan," which Stalin had mentioned approvingly in 1936.
A more accommodating side of Maderna emerges in the Violin Concerto, composed a decade later in 1969, with its sensuous textures, more lyrical solo writing and its patchwork of self-quotations – one of the two cadenzas recycles an earlier piece for solo violin.
It was a reasonable judgment to accept the background interview, but the self-serving quotation went too far.
"What is to be done?," as Max asks, in self-mocking quotation marks, in "Rock 'n' Roll".
It combines his teacher's brand of noisy neoclassicism with the tangos that were so deeply embedded in Piazzolla's musical makeup, though the dances appear almost in self-conscious quotation marks here.
"If I could go back in time, I'd introduce my 22-year-old self to a quotation by the writer Brian Andreas: 'Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life,'" Huffington Post cofounder Arianna Huffington writes on LinkedIn.
