Lowell Liebermann: Piano Sonata no.1 op.1/mov.1

[SatanPanda]

sound like crap

[hotplate85]

Well-done, but not representing post-modernism in ANY way. Sounds like Kirchner or any academic composer....not that that's bad, but hardly inspiring.

[saulboyjt]

this is idiotic 'music'.

[Yale75]

Excellent performance of excellent music!

[worleca27]

Really exciting music!

[caveman3461]

it sounded nice, either my tastes have changed beyond my understanding or my liking to Chopin's work has led me into a liking of many more piano played songs.

[frosty956]

I dont tink so. Why cant you just enjoy it for listening to? why does it have to have 'meaning'? Why do you have to understand, just enjoy.

[clearsunnysky]

I feel that would help appreciate the music more but if you could help me out here: is there some place I could go to get the artist's meaning of the piece or will it have to be wading through people's interpretations? I will love you forever if you can help me out here.

[xodn3300]

@clearsunnysky do mozart sonatas have such "meaning" that you're demanding from this piece? i don't think anyone needs help liking or disliking this particular piece

[spinningfan]

i wonder how many of you went to wikipedia for 'your thoughts' on atonal.

[christophermsmith]

Does it really help to dissect and pigeon hole music as one thing or another? It is just art....listen to it!

[davidbaker03]

you should listen to my piece i just wrote that is using 12 tone! it is very short but i actually found it very interesting and fun when we studied atonal music and writing in theory class. tell me what you thinK! its not done, i want to add more to it.

[frosty956]

It is very good.

[WigridXD]

nice.

[comrademarxist]

Well, he wrote this when he was 15, so you can't expect it to be his magnum opus.

[aldebussy]

Lowell Libermann is one of my favourite contemporary composers. His writings for orchestra and the flute are AMAZING...

Not all his compositions are this bizarre...

Still interesting...

[Pianoman1770]

this is the strangest song ive ever heard! lol it sounds like a haunted house song! a great song to scare someone! very nice lol

[shnimmuc]

I like the piece. A contempory composer who still writes music. Another one is Robert Cummings. The video of his Lacrymosa is moving. I`m sorry the quality is not better.

[varsitypianist2012]

He sounds like an easier version of Prokoviev. I wouldn't necessarily call this atonal, but it is bizarre by romantic standards. The performer still makes it sound good.

[ThePiano1991]

oh it is atonal. Lovely though isn't it.

[mta110]

Atonality is not just a way to describe a piece of music. There is a strict method one must used to produce something atonal called dodecaphony. This is great music, but it is not dodecaphonic.

[CocoaRadix]

No, this is NOT twelve-tone music. I agree with you there; however, only the narrowest definition of "atonal" refers exclusively to twelve-tone music. In a more general sense, atonal music is music that lacks a distinct tonal center. Going by that definition, you could certainly classify this piece as atonal. You could even make the argument that some of Liszt's later works are atonal.

[mta110]

Yes, you are right...atonality has recently been used to describe more than dodecaphonic music and we are splitting hairs to argue the point any further, but for music like this I prefer the term "free tonal" it accurately describes the harmony and isn't so "loaded"

[mxdblessing]

"atonal" literally means "not tonal". not all of even schoenberg's, webern's, or berg's atonal works were twelve tone. "atonal" doesn't really describe a style in a very concise or meaningful manner from a theoretical perspective, except for the fact that tonal music is much more pervasive in general. at any rate it doesn't say what the music is, just what it's not: tonal. then again, it also depends on how you define tonality, which is a different matter altogether.

[XavierMac]

It's not atonal

[xiphoid13]

nice. but do you know why contemporary composers wrote so atonal? you realy must be skilled to write something like that and still make it sound nice.

[4444matthew4444]

well I didn't write this Lowell Liebermann Did and yes he is an amazing composer!

[Werwolf2x]

so does your mother :D

[megagnathos]

true....

[ctimur]

@xiphoid13 one of the main purposes of contemporary classical music is to break the old habits; such us tonality, obvious and singable melodies, symmetric forms...

and you know, for me, since there's a really really big technological difference between now and a hundred years ago -even ten can be mentioned-, these attitudes which forms the contemporary music, are inevitable, yet even not enough =)

best regards dear brother.

[guitarike]

beautiful piece, very interesting. we need more contemporary composers who can write originally without it sounding like a random collage of notes