I've some experience with hauntings and noticed that paranormal activity is prevalent during the day; not concentrated at "night" as most of these reality ghost hunter shows suggest.
I could say the same about your videos. I don't mind it unless the overall rating obviously reflects a number of 1 star votes - there is just no reason for any music upload to receive that.
In the case of this video, I think a few were dissatisfied with the performance, which is fine and I'm glad they voiced it.
MacDowell did compose a few works incorporating Native American melodies, but other than that, he sounds like a late-Romantic German composer; not an "American."
The same goes for many of MacDowell's contemporaries: Paine, Chadwick, Foote, and William Mason.
There were few exceptions: Anthony Heinrich was the first to incorporate Native American melodies in his works. And then there's the so-called American Indianists, spearheaded by Farwell, Cadman, Gilbert, who intensified this trend.
I actually did a college music research project on MacDowell and the "Indianists," and from what I've studied and heard I would say they are more interesting to a musicologist than a listener.
Their pieces employ transcriptions of Indian melodies/rhythms, pentatonic scales, droning open fifths and fourths, and other pianistic effects to imitate drums, but they lack substance compared to MacDowell's indianist pieces. I'll upload his "From an Indian Lodge" so you can get an idea of the sound.
Thanks for uploading this!
gerardbedecarter 2 months ago
Too bad the mood there was at the start wasn't with the piece all the time. For me this is a bit of that and bit of this.
Aul1kki 11 months ago
I was so scared of this music, I turned it off after a minute and ten seconds.
AndrewFinch1 1 year ago
Truly inspiring!...Fireside Tales Op. 61 (1902). Great AMERICAN composer!
johnnynoirman 1 year ago
Im proud of my great great grandfather.
ymerej2100 2 years ago 8
MacDowell didn't have any children. So....
Shores1982 2 years ago 22
Fun! (Spooky fun from EAM!) I've loved his work for years. My house is supposed to be haunted but all I hear at night is the stool running...
TheMikester307 2 years ago 2
I've some experience with hauntings and noticed that paranormal activity is prevalent during the day; not concentrated at "night" as most of these reality ghost hunter shows suggest.
Hexameron 2 years ago
i wonder why some of these videos are being downrated? how is that possible!!!?
scriabinwasmydadTOO 2 years ago
I could say the same about your videos. I don't mind it unless the overall rating obviously reflects a number of 1 star votes - there is just no reason for any music upload to receive that.
In the case of this video, I think a few were dissatisfied with the performance, which is fine and I'm glad they voiced it.
Hexameron 2 years ago
Very good!
tomekkobialka 2 years ago
way to fast...
ReturnOfTheStienway 2 years ago 2
yup, sounds more angry than mysterious.
defdeezy 2 years ago
good stuff!
scriabinwasmydad 2 years ago
It's a shame that MacDowell isn't regarded among the likes as other American composers, such as Barber, Ornstein, Liebermann, and Morton Gould.
sanctusignis 2 years ago
It seems like alot of the earlier American composers are very unknown, I just found out about Ornstein a few weeks ago. :|
NGS712 2 years ago
MacDowell did compose a few works incorporating Native American melodies, but other than that, he sounds like a late-Romantic German composer; not an "American."
The same goes for many of MacDowell's contemporaries: Paine, Chadwick, Foote, and William Mason.
There were few exceptions: Anthony Heinrich was the first to incorporate Native American melodies in his works. And then there's the so-called American Indianists, spearheaded by Farwell, Cadman, Gilbert, who intensified this trend.
Hexameron 2 years ago
True and I've read that one of the earliest 'American' composers was Ives.
Are there any particular works you'd recommend from Heinrich or the Indianists?
NGS712 2 years ago
I actually did a college music research project on MacDowell and the "Indianists," and from what I've studied and heard I would say they are more interesting to a musicologist than a listener.
Their pieces employ transcriptions of Indian melodies/rhythms, pentatonic scales, droning open fifths and fourths, and other pianistic effects to imitate drums, but they lack substance compared to MacDowell's indianist pieces. I'll upload his "From an Indian Lodge" so you can get an idea of the sound.
Hexameron 2 years ago
Thanks. :)
NGS712 2 years ago
It's true that he was a romantic composer but because I am American and he was American I like to think of him as American, lol.
everythingistken1291 2 years ago