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Long-playing audio of serenity, desperately needed in today's world:
Index for the above:
0:00:00 J.S. Bach - Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068: II. Air 0:04:17 Brahms - Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90: III. Poco allegretto 0:10:17 Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor “Pathétique”: II Agagio cantabile 0:15:04 Marcello - Oboe Concerto in D Minor: II. Adagio 0:18:56 Ravel - Piano Concerto in G Major: II. Adagio Assai 0:28:15 Beethoven - Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 “Pastoral”: II Andante molto mosso (Szene am Bach) 0:40:56 Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37: II. Largo 0:53:40 Brahms - Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77: II. Adagio 1:03:23 Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 12 in C-Sharp Minor “Moonlight”: I. Adagio sostenuto 1:09:06 Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46: I. Morning Mood 1:13:18 Chopin - Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor Op.11: II. Romance. Larghetto 1:24:05 Fauré - Élégie, Op. 24 1:30:34 Mahler - Symphony No. 5: IV. Adagietto. sehr langsam 1:38:51 Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467: II. Andante "Elvira Madigan" 1:44:54 Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18: II. Adagio sostenuto 1:56:01 Mozart- Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in A Major, K. 622: II. Adagio 2:03:21 Schubert - Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, D. 485: II. Andante con moto 2:14:10 Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major K. 488: II. Andante 2:20:30 Tchaikovsky - Serenade for Strings, Op. 48: III. Élégie. Larghetto elegiac
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ReplyDelete...too bad it was all developed using the racist German Nazi loving musical theories of Schenker, et al.
ReplyDelete....but hey, had it been developed using African music theories or merged with Indian raga musical theory, it could have been so much better.
...cuz hey, do we want any music in the future sounding like this?
ReplyDeleteIt stands to reason (by the music theory of the market) that all popular music should contain a verse, chorus and bridge, and that these element must interchangeable without damaging the song.
ReplyDeleteR.I.P. FreeThinke. I hope you're listening today.
ReplyDelete:)
ReplyDeleteJoe,
ReplyDeleteIn the spirit of FreeThinke, I will repost my comment that got ignored in a previous thread when it was smothered by more educated comments. However, unlike FreeThinke, I will spare you by not putting it in ALL BOLD ;-)
Jez and Joe caused me to go look up an early 20th century German music person named Schenker.
DeleteI love this line in the wiki, so redolent of the time and place:
"When Schenker was planning a diatribe against Paul Bekker whose monograph on Beethoven was very popular at the time, Hertzka refused to consider publishing it, noting that Bekker and he were close friends."
Monographs, triptychs, and formally published diatribes! Sounds like something out of a Wes Anderson movie.
FreeThinke would have been so happy and full of himself in that olde world, competing fiercely with fellow pianists and composers, delivering long-winded symposia on how proper grammar relates to gentlemanly refinement and the superiority of European classical music, dashing off fiery dispatches and condemnations, the never-ending spats, sly sabotage and professional jealousy...
Sorry. I didn't mean for it to get ignored. Your point is a very valid one. IMO- Adam Neely is a overly "caught up" in this same ethos-pathos filled rhetorical world of FreeThinke which steers, but cannot but attempt to alter the future of our diverse future-composer's musical worldview through "music theory".
Delete...or in Neely's specific case, Critical Theory (ala Adorno) fused with identity politics and music theory.
DeleteI think that the music can speak fairly well for itself.
Delete...as for all those non_European non-Eighteenth-Century musical theories, paraphrasing the sage words of Adorno...
DeleteThey argue that the culture industry supports the retiring work day. Rather than think about the precariousness and difficulty of their positions at the end of the day, it's much easier for the worker to "switch off" and consume the same libidinal regimes of enjoyment without considering the possibility of difficult change, to be creative, to read something new. To follow a new plot in a film. To take the time to learn and enjoy completely new music is laborious, difficult. The culture industry organizes free time in the same way capital organizes work time. Everything is defined for you without room for individual creativity and difference.
Damn that worker's "white privilege"!
Thus originates a habitual acceptance of a particular causal interpretation, which, as a matter of fact, inhibits any investigation into the real cause--even precludes it.
Delete5 The psychological explanation of this. To derive something unknown from something familiar relieves, comforts, and satisfies, besides giving a feeling of power. With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. Since at bottom it is merely a matter of wishing to be rid of oppressive representations, one is not too particular about the means of getting rid of them: the first representation that explains the unknown as familiar feels so good that one "considers it true." The proof of pleasure ("of strength") as a criterion of truth.
The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause--a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving. That it is something already familiar, experienced, and inscribed in the memory, which is posited as a cause, that is the first consequence of this need. That which is new and strange and has not been experienced before, is excluded as a cause. Thus one searches not only for some kind of explanation to serve as a cause, but for a particularly selected and preferred kind of explanation--that which has most quickly and most frequently abolished the feeling of the strange, new, and hitherto unexperienced: the most habitual explanations. Consequence: one kind of positing of causes predominates more and more, is concentrated into a system and finally emerges as dominant, that is, as simply precluding other causes and explanations. The banker immediately thinks of "business," the Christian of "sin," and the girl of her love.
...and the Democrat, "identity politics and racism"
--Nietzsche, "Twilight of the Idols"
Free-Thinkers must work at avoiding "ruts and mind-grooves" so as to even begin at thinking for themselves! :)
Delete...lest the culture industry offer your their most recent Disney/Marvel/Star Wars Joker/Batman re-boot and do it for you... even the very rebellion aimed at disempowering that very same culture industry! Inter-passive consumption forever!
DeleteAnyone up for some film theory? Where's "ducky"? Can we talk about Godard and the French New Wave now?
Delete...cuz I can raise you a Zizek.
Delete"Culture is, before all things, the unity of artistic style, in every expression of the life of a people." - Nietzsche
Delete“Culture” is the name for all those things we practice without really believing in them, without taking them quite seriously." - Slavoj Zizek
"Wenn ich Kultur hore . . . entsichere ich mein Browning." -Hanns Johst, "Schlageter"
DeleteThe advertisement for the post: Interlude.
ReplyDeleteLong-playing audio of serenity, desperately needed in today's world:
Give it a break.
!!!!NOTE TO COMMENTERS WHO ARE OFF TOPIC!!!!
ReplyDeleteApparently, your mother never trained you to be polite and not crap on the floor.
If you have a comment that's relevant to the post, you are welcome to make it. IF NOT, GO AWAY!
I'm tired of deleting your droppings.
I hope people realize that 99% of the crap we delete is rightwing crap.
DeletePeople on the left who disagree and argue on-topic and without insults and vulgarity never get deleted.
Don't bother ,Joe.
ReplyDeleteI didn't mean for this to devolve into a distraction from AOWs Interlude post.
No problem. :)
DeleteBeautiful music and yes, so relaxing and it is something we all need. I absolutely love each composer, but Bach has always been my favorite.
ReplyDeleteThanks for this Sundays "Interlude!"
Layla,
DeleteJ.S. Bach is my favorite, too! I'm also very fond of Debussy's music.
Aaaah :)
ReplyDeleteBAYSIDER
Joe,
ReplyDeleteSoon, I'll be putting up a tribute-to-FreeThinke post. He'd have been 81 this month.
I look forward to it! :)
ReplyDeleteI wonder what Schencker would make of the Ravel?
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