Thomas Adès Piano Quintet (part 1 of 2)

Calder Quartet and Gloria Cheng live at the Colburn School December 5th 2008

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[standingoneawall]

Any other drummers end up here after trying to research time ?

He uses 2/6, 9/14 and 5/24, if anyone has any ideas what that means let me know :p

Great piece of music

[mystabyers]

@standingoneawall I was equally confused at first. It really makes you think about what a time signature means.. number of beats on top and duration of note on the bottom. 6/8 has 6 eighth notes. So what is 2/7 or 1/13?

I realized that an eighth note is one eighth of a whole note. So by the same logic, a seventh note is one seventh of a whole note, and a 13th note is one 13th. So by knowing the speed of a whole note, you can calculate how fast any other division is.

[Industriebrot]

I recind my negative statements. Not because of a change of heart but because i was too eager to jump on a negativity bandwagon that's marching through the net. I don't want to reinforce any negative stereotypes that damage the already bad reputation of lovers of contemporary art music.

[Varese52]

Given the present state of classical music in the West (it seems to be doing rather better in the East), I find it refreshing to have a first-rate compositional talent receive accolades. Meanwhile, comparing him with masters who've already completed their life's work strikes me as pretty absurd. Give the man a break; hopefully, he still has a long life ahead of him to produce his best work.

[JSweec]

for a second there I thought it finally started to make sense then I'm lost again

[Epitomedrums03]

this has a very dark and almost insane quality to it, not only from all the seemingly random tonal plucking but the outrageously spacey timing of the parts. I can see how it would be offsetting to someone who is used to traditional 4/4 music.

[mariusfelix]

@robinfoote Dude, you are so right!

[mariusfelix]

@ybravura Funny, in Germany this music would possibly be criticized as the opposite of "BOINK, screeeeech, wheeze, PLUCK, &c". By the way, who are, in your oppinion, the "composers who are doing something new and original"? I listened to some of Adès orchestral music, and it sounded very "tonal" to me, if you want to call it like this...

[AndycKV]

@caekface

So what your saying is its rarely used and when it is it can be a approximated by more conventional time signatures...therefore its a pedantic and pointless process. The whole point of music notation is to remove the mystique not add to it, therefore those time signatures are an academic division, irrelevant to actual music listening or performance.

[AndycKV]

@caekface

So what your saying is its rarely used and when it is it can be a pproximated by more conventional time signatures...therefore its a pedantic and pointless process. The whole point of music notation is to remove the mystique not add to it, therefore those time signatures are an academic division, irrelevant to actual music listening or performance.

[AndycKV]

@caekface

Feel free to explain to me what a 6th note is or a 7th note? I would be particularly interested in your explanation.

[standingoneawall]

Yeah thats what i thought aswell dude, i looked this up on wiki so your your more them welcome to look, if you work it out let me know lol