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Q&A Why do some composers gesticulate wildly, while others reserve their composure?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoZdwam7wgw is based on just one piece, Mahler's Symphony 2, and a sample size of one from which we can't conclude anything. But I've noticed these wildly different ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by elemtilas‭

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Q&A Did Schoenberg consider dodecaphony in terms of democracy and freedom?

Can anyone substantiate the asserveration below? Why do some people dislike Schoenberg so intensely? : classicalmusic That didn't happen, I think, for two reasons. First, as I mentioned, his mus...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by gmcgath‭

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Meta We love the Second Viennese School, but daughter's practice of Boulez's music is wearying us. How can we appreciate Boulez?

Mithical closed https://music.codidact.com/posts/281953 "as not constructive" on Sep 30, 2021. Mithical commented Unfortunately, this questions seems extremely opinion-based; asking how to learn...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭

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Q&A "Properly" naming rotations of unusual scales?

A while ago I came across this amazing video, which answers your question thoroughly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq2xt2D3e3E According to that video the specific scale pattern you gave is ca...

posted 4y ago by celtschk‭

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Q&A Why do you need sheet music of John Cage's 4′33″ to perform it?

At 1:45, Kirill Petrenko has the paper score for 4'33" opened on his conductor stand. But use of sheet music feels guileful and uncandid for 4'33". Can't a competent conductor or musician "conduc...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by gmcgath‭

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Q&A Which of Pierre Boulez's composition(s) are considered unlistenable, and/or the (Modernist) Emperor's New Clothes?

I can brook listening to Boulez's 3 Piano Sonatas, Le Marteau sans maître, Pli selon pli, and Répons. I've listened to Boulez's OTHER compositions THE PAST 20 YEARS, but nothing else of his resonat...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 3y ago by TextKit‭

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Q&A Why can't a pop singer on stage, wearing earpieces, hear someone right next to her?

Please see https://youtu.be/P_6i0Js-aw4?t=184. This is Tiffany Young singing Not Barbie, on her Lips on Lips tour in San Francisco, dated March 15 2019. As her fan (to her right) tries to speak to...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 11mo ago by Spamalot‭

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Q&A 'differential' vs 'different' : as adjectives, not nouns.

Are the textbooks below using 'differential' correctly? Why not just write 'different'? The structure of differential identity is such that in order for there to be a limit at all, one differen...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 3y ago by TextKit‭

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Q&A Anyone know what sample library might have a cleared Alvin Cash - Get Away breakbeat?

Anyone know what sample library might have a cleared Alvin Cash - Get Away breakbeat? Cleared of course, and not illegally. Just searching by the name doesn't bring any legal sources up, but it m...

0 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by mavavilj‭  ·  edited 7mo ago by mavavilj‭

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Q&A How can you productively find all recordings of a piece?

I'm unsettled to find merely 2 CD's of Rautavaara's Piano Concertos 1 and 2 Laura Mikkola (pianist), Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Eri Klas (conductor), Naxos (record company) Ralf Go...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 3y ago by TextKit‭

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Q&A Why did Pierre Boulez gesticulate way less in 2006, than in 1963, whilst conducting Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring?

Please compare and contrast Pierre Boulez conducting Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring? Here's him conducting l'Orchestre de Radio-Canada in 1963 https://youtu.be/QF1pTRR8l20 vs. Orquesta Filar...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by TextKit‭

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Q&A Why no International Piano Competitions (as lofty as the Chopin) for less popular composers of ≥ 3 Piano Concertos, like Rautavaara?

I trust my reasoning is obvious, self explanatory. I'm referring to relatively arcane composers who composed AT LEAST 3 piano concertos like John Field, Paul Hindemith, Ernst Krenek, Bohuslav Mar...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 3y ago by TextKit‭

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Q&A We love the Second Viennese School, but daughter's practice of Boulez's music is wearying us. How can we appreciate Boulez? [closed]

We love and listen to the Second Viennese School like Berg, Schoenberg, Webern — even before my daughter was born! My daughter's studying music at university. To guard privacy, I don't want to writ...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by TextKit‭  ·  closed 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Why does Cathay Pacific's 2018 boarding music feel "Chinese"?

I hope it's obvious to you that this music sounds "Chinese". Why though? Does it use a Major Pentatonic scale? parallel harmony in fourths and fifths? portamento? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 4y ago by TextKit‭

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Q&A Why does a conductor need to gesture and hand wave, to "conduct" John Cage's 4′33″? [duplicate]

At 0:24, as this comment correctly REaffirms Love how serious the conductor is, putting his hand up for all the time Kirill Petrenko starts his handwaving. Why? His handwaving and gestures fe...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  closed as duplicate 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Please identify this instrumental? Is this "Ocean" by This Night Alone?

This video uses an instrumental version, which https://www.aha-music.com/identify-songs-music-recognition-online/rec/04d5ec380b0c7a48dc815be0ae3c6e81#record-div identifies as Ocean by "The Nights A...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 3y ago by TextKit‭

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Q&A Why does Korean Pop feature so much backbreaking, grueling dancing?

My daughter's been listening to KPop, like Girls' Generation Into the New World. You can watch the Ballad versions, with NO dancing, at the Tokyo Dome for the 2011 Girls Generation Tour, and Girls ...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 4y ago by TextKit‭

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