Charles Ives - The Unanswered Question [480p]

[fleshtrashheat]

This piece was used in The Thin Red Line. Amazing!!!!

[anima2221]

I love this song, and what it represents. For those who can't figure it out, it's about a person who asks an "Unanswered Question." The woodwinds are the people who mock the person, and the trumpet is the one who asks it. Just like 123C4F said, it's haunting, yet at the same time, magnificent. I needed to look this song up once we were shown it in orchestra class as an example for music in the modern era. Beautiful song.

[zombiemasacre]

@anima2221 Its not so much that the woodwinds are mocking, but that the woodwinds are attempting to answer the "perennial question of existence" as Ives put it.

[TheMojenkins]

@zombiemasacre at one point the woodwinds are mocking the trumpet by answering the question with the question, I think that is what anima2221 might have been referring to.

[darkblueangel1956]

Anche qui, gli accenti onirici e il senso di sospensione in un limbo, fanno da chiave di accesso all'ispirazione del Compositore, che ha anticipato tanto linguaggio di Stravinskij, Shostakovitch, Bartok. Trovo in più una purezza e una "apparente" semplicità del flusso sonoro strumentale, in realtà scelto e costruito da Ives con cura meticolosa, proprio come la rifinitura della scrittura, con quel particolare melange del timbro orchestrale, negli addensamenti e nei gruppi ristretti.

[123C4F]

Haunting, and at the same time magnificent.

[gjyyngii]

What software did you use?

[ThomasLigre]

@gjyyngii

I used windows movie maker first... but now I use magix video!

[wenaviste]

Música de alto nivel cultural, artístico, académico. Es solo para gente muy inteligente y dispuesta compenetrarse en el mundo sonoro de la música contemporanea culta. Los ignorantes abundan, para ellos no es esta música.