Henry Cowell - The Banshee

[satyros2]

thank you

[thelollipopgurl8]

this sounds like it could be from the movie incidious. thanx to my music teacher in middle school i am creeped out! thanx!

[44478129102734]

Is this expressionist music?

[Hamiltonharty]

@44478129102734 no



[flyawaywithme09]

Creeeeeeepy! lol..My daughter decides to show this to me at 10pm at night.. I <3 what her music teacher is showing her..lol.. :)

[MrPiazza82]

Oh God I heard this in 3rd grade...ah well I don't need to sleep tonight at all...

[jlover1312]

Lol I had to listen his song and write a 1 page report on it. This really CREEPS me out!!

[AGdollfan9]

my music teacher played this song to us!!!!! i love it!!!!!

[trueartgirl]

yes just in time for Halloween :D

[spacecops1]

Fap fap fap gotta love the sound of your voice to be a music major haha.

[eethove]

As a classical music aficionado, this is extremely interesting, but nonetheless from a musical perspective, I kind of hate it. A very neat concept, though, but it Sounds rather bad to my ears...

[MuseDuCafe]

@eethove Maybe you should take that "Classical Music Afficiando" off your calling card if your hearing and aesthetic tastes sort of drop off at the end of the common practice period. This music is older than Bach's was when Mendelssohn resurrected it.

[eethove]

@MuseDuCafe Actually, just a factual correction, Bach wrote the Saint Matthew Passion in 1727, and it was 102 years old when Mendelssohn resurrected it. This piece is 86 years old. However, in response to your claim, my tastes, I assure you, go all across the centuries-- from Gregorianism and Hildegard von Bingen all the way to contemporary composers. As it happens, I am quite a fan of modernists like Shostakovich, Khachaturian, Oleg Eiges, and even many pieces of Henry Cowell himself.

[Linkemelee1993]

Fantastic piece. No doubt.

[Hanslowc]

My music teacher is making us listen to this torture right now.....=.=

[Madnessfan34537]

@Hanslowc It's beauty not torture, you are very lucky to hear this wonderful music.

[rppyt333]

my music teacher made us create stuff like this lol XD

[dmh497]

This is a pretty good video, but not as good as the one where the guy gets hit in the crotch with a baseball. Have you seen that one?

[come2u2cu]

@dmh497 which of them? :P

[oracle24401]

Wow...this song used to creep me out so much when I was little. Our music teacher would play it every Halloween and it scared the whole class XD

[nc08638]

@oracle24401 Ya, deja vu listening to this song. It just makes ur spine start having crazy sensations! Every time I thought about this song when I was little it kept me from falling asleep.

[elysiumx2]

Wow, this is amazing. I can just feel the music.

[Lydge]

My music teacher preformed a bit of this today in class. It was wonderful.

[HLGGodz]

Gotta love Henry Cowell. He was a self taught composer. He brought a lot of new things to the table in music when he investigated into the overtone series and music outside of Western European art music. He also brought us musicians notations with instructions lol. Did you know it takes two players to play this in concert?

[kezadrone]

Roy Budd loved this technique. I used to do it on our piano. Sweeping across all the keys with my foot on the pedal that is.

[XxKrYpToNiiTExX]

HAHA. my music teacher always plays this in awkward silences, or when we r doing a test.

[runicrules]

@XxKrYpToNiiTExX All teachers should do that, at least the ones who play piano. :)

[Topographic0ceans]

I love searching through the realm of avant-garde music. It's like walking through an asylum to find the crazy people who are cool.

[runicrules]

@Topographic0ceans If you know of any disturbing or unsettling music, please message me. I have been searching, this is the second song I have found even slightly unsettling in weeks.

[Topographic0ceans]

@runicrules you should look up A Garden of Bells by R. Murray Shafer... he is a Canadian composer that my friends had to study for their music course. His vocal arrangements are odd, and his instrumentation sometimes even moreso.

[Topographic0ceans]

@runicrules and, "disturbing" and "unsettling" are some seriously subjective terms. If you want to go by what I commonly get told is disturbing and unsettling, listen to the album Obscura by Gorguts. You might not be a metal fan at all, but these guys are unreal. The album is going on 13 years old now, and is easily still the most complex and avant-garde metal album created. I find it very trance-like, especially if you put on low volume and read the lyrics while listening

[yonnystarr]

@runicrules Try this for disturbing... an example of musique concrete.

Try this for distrubing... An example of musique concrete.

watch?v=R-R3F3ZVbi8

[wholeinmytree]

fascinating!

[Denziel12]

I like how ignorance is trying to cloud the beauty of the piece at hand. Fortunately, they failed.

[maxcohen13]

@stoopidryan8 You think a tiny "astute" section of the internet on pseudo-classical music is going to be immune to idiots? Oh, ye of little faith.

MORONS: THEY'RE EVERYWHERE.

[stoopidryan8]

how does all this juvenile shit end up in the comments section on henry cowell?

[petezilla]

@stoopidryan8 Some people define themselves by what they don't like. None of them are artists, though!

[kdsf12]

Why are you people here?

[historyfreakfroman]

This would be an awesome theme for any horror movie

[patwrotethis]

I dont really like this piece, it definitely evokes fear and uneasyness out of me but personally i find nothing to truly make me interested in ever wanting to listen to it again

[WimGrundy]

MY OLD PAL ROBERT ELLSWORTH PERFORMED POE'S 'TELLTALE HEART' FOR MY 1969 VIDEO AND ACCOMPANIED HIMSELF IN THIS EERIE MANNER. GOOD JOB, BOB!

[hateanimalcruelty122]

@nicholasval10 GaY? screw you it's a classical piece of art in the musical industry

[hateanimalcruelty122]

@shagythommy I BET YOU LIKE HIM SINCE YOUR GAY

[hateanimalcruelty122]

@shagythommy everyone corects me on that when i get pissed off im not gonna worry about "proper" stuff cuz i dont need to in a comment your just being a tight ass who thinks that you have to aim as low as stuff you learn at school cuz you cant think of anything else

[hateanimalcruelty122]

@shagythommy being? straight?! your right...Unlike you

[hateanimalcruelty122]

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JACKOFF

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[hateanimalcruelty122]

@shagythommy stfu

[DeadlyNinjaDrummer]

@hateanimalcruelty122 damn that was a good comeback. Did you learn that in elementry school? 

[hateanimalcruelty122]

@DeadlyNinjaDrummer Why yes I did:) O_o

[hateanimalcruelty122]

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[TheHalluzination]

@hateanimalcruelty122 U mad?

[hateanimalcruelty122]

@TheHalluzination yes!!!! He needs to stfu!!!!!! I may not kno him closly but...I HATE HIM!!!!

Thanks for noticing :D

[razzledizzazzle]

Chilling. I can't even imagine what it would sound like live...

[nicholasval10]

im on my brothers account but i heard this in my chior class because my teacher played it it was amazinggggg to me the deffinition of horror

[prettyviola]

This used to scare the sh*t outta me in elementary school. D:

Still kinda does....

[iKolorWithKrayons]

I heard this in my Advanced music course in school a couple weeks ago, and I love every minute. It's fascinating. To me, this is the definition of horror.

[Vayshen]

Incredible how you can almost hear the crying and whining of a Banshee in this. There're so many more sounds you have access to from a piano with extended piano techniques like this one.

[matttrevproductions]

just heard this today in school. 6th grade.

[petezilla]

ha! this is f*cking awesome! I came across the score and said "GOTTA hear this one..."

[longbowgold67]

Just as creepy today as it was when I first heard it in grade school

[WatchBlueSkies]

VERY interesting and great ! I Love it . THANK YOU !!

[shadowknight132]

I actually thought this was being sung. Crazy how Cowell used the insides of the piano to create this. It's stupid how critics (who heard this when Cowell performed it for the first time) thought it was a horrible idea to used the insides of a piano.

[EvilDead159]

me 2 every halloween wed listen to crappy songs n such, and i think this was one of em lol awesome

[samurai0rezurii]

I have been looking for this song forever! I heard it in Elementary music class and when the teacher asked us if there were any songs we wanted on tape, I wanted this song. But, I think I recorded over it. I adore this song because it's so scary!! XD

[SHADOWFREAK55]

man my psycho kindergarten music teacher played this in our ears. it was so scary! lol

[GrigoriSom]

@SHADOWFREAK55 : Excellen! I heard it in 2nd or 3rd grade from a teacher as well. . . which makes you cooler than me.

[TinyDancer0087]

@SHADOWFREAK55 I feel like we must have had the same music teacher... Mr. Gibson?

[SHADOWFREAK55]

@TinyDancer0087 no? lol

[fremsley001]

Fantastic. If piano lessons were like this, they might actually be fun.

[musicman216]

@fremsley001 haha

[Doovongeman]

It's really haunting.

[lurxtlifeson]

This is the first Cowell song I ever heard. Heard it on new years eve, I absolutely LOVE it!