Showing posts with label Schoenberg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Schoenberg. Show all posts
Sunday, January 10, 2016

Exploring Music with No Melody, part 2

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In part one , we compared a ridiculous number (20) of definitions of the word, melody, and came up with our own, functional-but-flawed def...
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Thursday, January 7, 2016

Exploring Music with No Melody, part 1

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Does good music require a melody? Does the melody have to be something memorable that we can sing or whistle after having heard it? And wha...
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Monday, February 27, 2012

Spectralism

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The topic of spectral music came up in class today, and I thought it would be interesting to find out more about it. Let's start by l...
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Sunday, February 5, 2012

How much theory do you have to know in order to be a composer?

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This is a question that I am sometimes asked, and it came up recently in a conversation I had with Karim Al-Zand , the visiting composer for...
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010

On the "hatred" of modern classical music due to the brain's inability to cope...

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Last week I posted a link to an article in The Telegraph (UK) entitled, " audiences hate modern classical music because their brains c...
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Monday, February 22, 2010

"Audiences Hate Modern Classical Music Because Their Brains Cannot Cope"

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According to an article in The Telegraph (UK), " audiences hate modern classical music because their brains cannot cope ." –––––...
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Sunday, January 18, 2009

Atonal — Even the word sounds unpleasant!

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I find above all that the expression, 'atonal music,' is most unfortunate--it is on a par with calling flying 'the art of not fa...
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