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31.) "Music of the Gods?" Part III-Romanticism and Sense of Life

Over one day ago | Mon Dec 15 0:56:00 PST 2008

Rand outclasses Perigo in her analysis of music and cognition, which is why she can be forgiven for her more glib statements. But even she knows the boundaries, even when giving warnings against "modern" (atonal) music: "in fact, ...

From Joe Maurone

32.) Degenerate Music-Ernst Krenek (1900-1991)

Over one day ago | Mon Oct 27 23:33:00 PDT 2008

He explored atonality and other modern styles and wrote a number of books, including Music Here and Now (1939), a study of Johannes Ockeghem (1953), and Horizons Circled: Reflections on my Music (1974). Life Krenek was born in Vienna. ...

From Horacio

33.) LA Phil Music Director Designate Gustavo Dudamel and the Israel ...

Over one day ago | Tue Nov 11 21:56:00 PST 2008

Throughout the work, there is a continual struggle between atonality and tonality, and the overall mournful tone of the piece conveys what was lost and what might have been. In his Jubilee Games, Bernstein s final major orchestral work ...

From unknown

34.) Music, Absolutely

Over one day ago | Tue Nov 25 14:28:00 PST 2008

The latter three gave the various ensemble groupings ample opportunities for their precise execution of the pointillist atonality that was to reenergize harmonic language for the next half century. The cumulative impression these Webern ...

From Rodney Punt

35.) One Hundred Years of Atonality

Over one day ago | Thu Dec 11 18:25:00 PST 2008

Carter's Third String Quartet back in the early 1970s, he famously remarked, "If that's music, I don't know what music is anymore." (And the two men were lifelong friends.) On the other hand, rockers like Frank Zappa and Warren Zevon ...

From Stone of stumbling and rock of offense

36.) That's the moment I woke up, thank the Lord

Over one day ago | Fri Nov 28 21:11:00 PST 2008

The leading contemporary example is John Adams: while the poetic impetus for his rejection of atonality may vary?hearing a Hendrix song blasting across Harvard yard? reading Silence? listening to Götterdämmerung while driving across ...

From newmusicrebloggers

37.) Orpheus Remembered: New Year's Resolutions versus The Infinite ...

Over one day ago | Wed Dec 31 23:52:00 PST 2008

I think it comes down to that human need for certainty, and the dangers of being "absurdly" liberal in one's approach (which is how I view postmodern atonal music, ha!). I don't like music that claims to break down one's mind. ...

From Joe Maurone

38.) Bach, Gould, Interpol: Magnetic Tonality

Over one day ago | Fri Nov 14 12:01:00 PST 2008

I completely agree that Interpol?s music very often hovers in the borderlands between tonality and atonality. But first, a few words on what the concept of tonality entails: To say that a piece of music is ?tonal,? is to say that all of ...

From Meghann Wilhoite

39.) "Music is, fundamentally, the art of feeling."

Over one day ago | Wed Nov 19 2:17:00 PST 2008

I think this reflects his commitment to musically coherent music. I'm not at all one of those bitter classicists who whines about this newfangled modern music what with its minimalism and its atonality and why don't any of these ...

From Rae

40.) In Memoriam Astor Piazzolla

Over one day ago | Fri Dec 12 13:50:00 PST 2008

The truth of the matter is that Sam is not exploring all of the possibilities within his own music. He has continually not worked with different all the timbres of a single instrument, extended techniques, and atonality. ...

From Justin Friello

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