Julián Carrillo: Balbuceos (First part)

Balbuceos, a piece for metamorphosed piano and orchestra composed by Julián Carrillo (1875-1965), a mexican composer and music theorist, it was ordered by Leopold Stokowski in 1960 and was later premiered in Houston

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[kakashiJAVB]

Siento una sensación de mareo conforme voy escuchando esta pieza

Esta genial, pero por alguna razon me causa mareo D:

[FlippinFlaves]

This man truly broke free from the structural confines of traditional composition. LIke @sonido13bb said, (or from what I can understand from my very limited spanish ability), there is no such thing as "microtonal music", there are only sounds and the names that humanity gave them--It just so happens that the traditional western musician made the confines of these definitions especially strict.

[Morgendeusmajesto]

Esta música me recuerda mucho a la película de "Los Olvidados" de Luis Buñuel.

[grizzlytomahawk]

@FlippinFlaves Yes, but using semitones is good for achieving the perfect balance of consonance and dissonance, there is a lot more dissonance in using scales that have less that semitones as intervals...imo.

[SkurBeats]

wow this is great, more exciting and melodic than a lot of micotonal music i have heard

[bartolomedc]

@FlippinFlaves Agreed and thks for that opinion. Hope this helps to open our spirit an mind to other think different from taxonomics.

[omarcruzambrosio]

@kakashiJAVB Las escalas microtonales dan esa sensación de "dizzy" o mareo, como cuando escuchas através de un cilíndro hueco, es algo comprensible, además de que la "armonía" de las microtonalidades da una sensación muy particular en los canales nerviosos auditivos, la composición de BALBUCEOS pareciera sacada de una obra de terror.

[gorgolyt]

@Enantiodromialist i tried. did not find. wasn't particularly bothered anyway.

[Enantiodromialist]

@gorgolyt But it is not the fact with all microtonal pieces. Do some research.

[gorgolyt]

@angstjager yeah i know, my point is that the main structure of the song is not microtonal, everything micro is simply used as a flourish. this is my experience with all 'microtonal' pieces.

[angstjager]

@gorgolyt that's what it actually makes microtonal, it might not be so "micro" as you hoped it to be, but it is

[gorgolyt]

basically everything in this is semitones. the only microtonal bits are effectively glissandos between standard notes. microtonal music my ass.