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docs n vids

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wandelweiser n antoine beuger https://vimeo.com/457323483?login=true  pat richter - ballet pianist for merce cunningham - interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDF-4Cs1bvM&t=695s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GssgCaShN5Q&t=9s cunningham & cage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNGpjXZovgk Tones Drones and Arpeggios The Magic of Minimalism pt1 && 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJlGjSQvvGs&t=281s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ0xs9UBpIw - music for 18 musicians - einstein on the beach philip glass

symphonies n tchaikovsky wiki

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphonies_by_Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky The fruit of Liszt's labors was what he eventually termed symphonic poems. In them, he used two alternatives to sonata form. Beethoven had used the first of these, cyclic form , to link separate movements thematically with one another. Liszt took this process one step further by combining themes into a single-movement cyclic structure.[58] The second alternative, thematic transformation, originated with Haydn and Mozart.[59] This process worked in a similar manner as variation but instead of a theme being changed into a related or subsidiary version of the main one, it becomes transformed into a related but separate, independent theme Keller offers the second theme in the first movement of the Fourth Symphony as an example of how this process works. In sonata form, he writes, the first subject enters in the tonic and the second subject follows in a contrasting but related key harmonically. Tension occurs when...

musique concrete

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 decided to relook at this shit again https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musique_concr%C3%A8te musique conrete s a type of music composition that utilizes recorded sounds as raw material. Pierre schaeffer symphony of noises https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTf0yE15zzI  16min https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4ea0sBrw6M  6min

antiaction vid play along screen record

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 https://youtu.be/vzE5tTjWdGY tried Eminor into G major ???? idfk

the sick doll tchaikovsky

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQeApR0uzd4 The sick doll. - key Gminor. Lento (slow) Binary form - 2 parts, A & B  sections marked by double bar lines G / A / Bb / C / D / Eb / F i / ii  / III / iv / V / VI / VII 4 bar pattern Starts G minor,  V7 back into i same chords, but varies the bottom/bass note of each chord. downwards progression is common is sad music. diminished chords have dreadful sound

score tests..

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 musescore4!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11 https://youtu.be/ZXMN7DoVZ3s 00:00 untitled score 00:20 idfk 00:49 playaroundtest flutes etc 01:10 waltz attempt play 01:55 ballet1 02:10 chordz 03:25 balletwaltzy 04:07 antiaction piece a minor 07:32 droneytest little thoughts............. the begnning few r just tryin to get used to the programeememem. like chordz, floaty.. balletwaltzy kinda like but more movie soundtrack vibe... too grandiose? ??? like anti action one, but think gonna stray from staccatos ....... tried to stick mostly to one note/chord tho which is inch er esting... droneytest -- tried making a fugue vibe kinda thing where it repeated an eighth note after each other,, not vibe goin for for the final thing tho.. like the effect of pulising rumbly deep dark notes. has droney effect but the range add sum texture,, its giving Fractal Noise

composers like eliane radigue?

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 https://www.reddit.com/r/composer/comments/p7htdf/where_can_i_read_more_about_wandelweiser_eliane/ Wandelweiser explained what it is vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpog4PGAIHg group of musicians  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandelweiser consists largely of silence BITS TAKEN FROM EXPLAIN VID: Andre O Moller . in memory of James Tenney V https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYfPTFcgI-U droney, low strings Antoine Beuger . 24 petits preludes pour la guitare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0an6DnluHpE lots of silence, slow pace, more silence than sounds A comment on the video talked about Kory Reeder too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUjOBXKt7W0 Available Light for Violin (2020) Adjacent Spaces for Piano Trio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT7k2g0W5Yg Jakob Ullmann  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aepGJZXEYoU the book Experimental Music Since 1970 by Jennie Gottschalk https://www.reddit.com/r/drone/comments/5w2s2z/looking_for_acoustic_drone_music_featuring_bowed/ the...

more freaky lil guys // classical

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 https://www.reddit.com/r/classicalmusic/comments/pcvwwu/most_absurddarkexperimental_classical_music_you/ Williams Mix - John Cage 1952 sampling, channel surfing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ql4Ophbt7k barbara hannigan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QttUcKZ8NMU https://www.reddit.com/r/classicalmusic/comments/x9rdan/avantgardeexperimentalcontemporary_classic/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sVSJtkNtTc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpU-MhVRlXU https://www.reddit.com/r/classicalmusic/comments/p939eu/what_are_some_of_the_most_experimental_pieces/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJEQqcw-830 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_rH2a-rg6Y choirrr

modernism in music - 20thc classical

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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfmbA7fPRsw rejects tonality, no key rejects rhymic meters, or alternates time signatures shoenberg buy stravinsky Polymeter - different instruments playing different meters. eg piano in 4/4 n violin in 5/4 Mahler 8th symphony. symphony of a thousand. wrote long symphonies 4th movement of 5th symphony. - float y neoclassicism stavinsky, poulec, satie Poulenc - concert champetre call back to baroque , harpsichord is featured instrument mixing old with the new.

eliane radigue acoustic

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 found shes done some acoustic works want to create drone-y effect with orchestral instruments so i decided to relook at some of her stuff as I know her electronic stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7e94W6pBrQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewUOtKA0JYk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaeMqtadvHQ

Impressionism in music / history/techniques

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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lof6AHvXCPw moods rather than distinct parts n melodies. wanted pieces to evoke feeling vague, blurred and impactful music instruments played in new ways flutes n clarinets - darker n lower muted horns rather than usual harshness Unusual chord combos... maj th, 9th 11ths 13ths etc BEefed up unresolved cadences were common too. floating, key-less dreamland Atonality.  Lack of tonal centre, not in a certain key Using different scales..  ancient medieval style modes, harmonies of 4ths n 5ths. whole tone scale pentatonic scale Rhythm lots lacks steady defined rhythm. more free form n fluid impressionst period 1872-1926 Romantic - fixated on telling story. explored deep intense emotions 1st person narrative, character is The POV Impressionism was more 3rd person, observer. outside perspectie. could consider motto of inpressionist music to be: "suggest and evoke but do not describe" Composers: debussy maurice ravel Joaquin Turina Erik Satie DEBU...

Music for silent films // incidental

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 Maya Deren - Eye of the Night silent film, but vid here w some music someone has put on is gud. glow-y angelic kinda thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsLdAmK_8LE Ballet Mechanique In 1924 George Antheil wrote Ballet Mécanique, which was actually for a film of moving objects, not for dancers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballet_M%C3%A9canique dada post cubist art film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqvK-YaJBLw music & score https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi53TfeqgWM&t=220s  film -- videos on music for silent films https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS-20Ga8eJE pianists would have volumes of mood music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_m8sm8P0Wc book is called motion picture moods by erno rapee found here: https://www.sfsma.org/ARK/22915/erno-rapee-motion-picture-moods/ https://www.sfsma.org/ARK/22915/motion-picture-moods/ https://www.sfsma.org/music-for-early-film/ - incidental music books