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My iPod recently shuffled to a track that begins with a lone bassoon holding onto to a B. My ears immediately assumed it was the held-over bassoon ...
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My iPod recently shuffled to a track that begins with a lone bassoon holding onto to a B. My ears immediately assumed it was the held-over bassoon note that links the 1st and 2nd movements of Mendelssohn's violin concerto; I was surprised to discover it was a passage from Copland's "Appalachian Spring." The two composers don't have a lot in common, but these two passages are remarkably similar.
In each case, a long held B on the bassoon resolves up to a C. Mendelssohn (upper staves) then moves up to a G-sharp at roughly the same time Copland moves through an E-flat to an A-flat, the A-flat being enharmonically equivalent to Mendelssohn's G-sharp. (In other words, they'd be played by the same note on a piano, even though they're notated differently.)
From there, the two pieces go in different directions. There's some lovely polytonal tension, and by the end of this brief mashup, we have Mendelssohn's C Major chord against Copland's A-flat Major chord. The chords still clash, but they each still feature that same C to which the bassoon had resolved. Remarkably, the barlines come close to lining up throughout this little mashup, even though Mendelssohn is in 6/8 and Copland's in 4/4.
Note that the Copland passage features some bitonal tension of its own as the 3rd and 5th measures feature an A-flat chord against and E-flat chord. (This passage is almost an exact repeat of the opening of "Appalachian Spring," excerpt there the harmonies are A Major and E Major.)
Read more here: http://mmmusing.blogspot.com/2009/11/...
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MMmusing uploaded a new video
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The opening of the 3rd movement of Chopin's 2nd piano sonata is heard simultaneously with the concluding 4th movement. The 3rd movement is perhaps ...
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The opening of the 3rd movement of Chopin's 2nd piano sonata is heard simultaneously with the concluding 4th movement. The 3rd movement is perhaps the most famous of all funeral marches; the 4th suggests ghostly winds whispering through a graveyard.
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MMmusing uploaded a new video
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Son of MMmusing takes Beatles Rock Band for a spin. (apologies for crummy cellphone video quality)
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MMmusing uploaded a new video
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MMmusing uploaded a new video
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Ned Rorem's very economical setting of Gertrude Stein's "I Am Rose." The song, which lasts about 15-25 seconds, can be heard in four diff...
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Ned Rorem's very economical setting of Gertrude Stein's "I Am Rose." The song, which lasts about 15-25 seconds, can be heard in four different versions in its entirety via the 30-second samples on the iTunes stores (just search "rorem am rose"). In this case, all four singers (Regina Sarfaty, Carole Farley, Susan Graham, and Phyllis Curtin) are heard simultaneously. [ More info here: http://mmmusing.blogspot.com/2009/09/... ]
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