Modern Composers, Works of the great composers |
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Modern Composers, Works of the great composers |
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Feb 7 2009, 10:51 AM |
Thanks Ramiro. I'd only heard of Steve Reich out of all of these composers so I'll definitely check the other ones out.
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Feb 7 2009, 01:00 PM |
Thanks Ramiro .
Those interested may also want to check out some/all of the following: Mark Anthony Turnage - young English composer . Here's one short out-take from his opera 'Greek'. One of his best pieces is 'Blood on the floor' - written for John Scofield, Peter Erskine and Martin Robinson. Turnage often beings in other muysical traditoins in to his compositions. Witold Lutolawski - particularly his sequence 'Chain 1', 'Chain 2', 'Chain 3'. Has used Polish folk music in his compositions along with Schoenberg's 12 tone row and John Cage's aleatory approach. John Cage - perhaps best known for the controversy over 4' 33'', John Cage helped pioneer the idea of chance circumstances occurring in music, the use of 'prepared' instruments and non-musical instruments (for instance children's toys). Some of his better known pieces include Perilous Night, Music of Changes, Imaginary Landscape, Litany for the whale. Thomas Ades - another young English composer who is also reknowned for his interpretations of Conlon Nancarrow, Schubert and others. One of his best pieces was his first opera, 'Powder her face'. Charles Koechlin - French composer who used Schoenberg's twelve tone row to compose the rather beautiful 'Jungle book' (not the disney score btw). Rhys Chatham - great American composer and guitar player who is influenced by punk rock. Some of his work was collected in the 3 cd set 'An angel moves too fast to see' which included a piece composed for 100 electric guitars. He's worked with Husker DU, Sonic Youth, Tortoise, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp and Steve Reich, to name a few. Glenn Branca - like Chatham he's a guitar player and avant garde composer and is known for using alternate tunings and the harmonic series. He formed the group Theoretical Girls in the late 70s and has since worked with Sonic Youth, Helmet and Swans. Some pieces worth checking out - 'Symphony 9 (l'eve future)' and 'World upside down' and 'Hallucination city' There are an awful lot more modern composers worth checking out as well. Cheers, Tony -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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Feb 7 2009, 05:57 PM |
Thanks for sharing, I'll check them out
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Feb 7 2009, 06:32 PM |
Thanks Ramiro what a cool topic - the first one, Luciano - is a shredder from hell!
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Feb 8 2009, 01:04 AM |
Well Tolek, Ligeti is not a scientific but he likes a lot science and he had many many friends who are scientists. You can relate his music with some fractals or some mathematical theorys that are similar.
This piano etudes are under the influence of the music of Conlon Nancarrow a Spanish composer who was radicated in Mexico and he used to make music for pianolas (you know, the pianos that are played by themselves because they carry some rolls with a mecanic system). That music is really odd because is impossible to play, physically imposible for an interpreter. Funny fact: Shawn Lane said one time that Buckethead listened to the music of Nancarrow and tried to emulate its sound (he didn't know that it was impossible and was played by a pianola) and in that way he invented that weird tapping that he plays (for example in the solo of Jordan). Some pieces sometimes doesn't even need a measure. In this case for example the feel of the piece turns into some very hard displacements in the rhythmic field, but if you see the score the bars are still written in some way. Here I leave you a link to an analysis of the meter in that work. http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/~tkunze/pbl/...dre/ligeti.html -------------------- |
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Feb 8 2009, 04:24 AM |
Excelent post Ramiro! Great music and information.
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Feb 8 2009, 08:23 AM |
Awesome thread with loads of information, gonna check it out, thanks!
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Feb 8 2009, 09:00 AM |
I'm rather fond of Arvo Part. I think Miserere is a real masterpiece.
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