Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 11:13 pm Post subject: Best moments in music
There are certain short sequences in music that have had a big impact on me. And with moments, I mean something that might last less than 30 seconds
Here are a few. Mostly classical music. I'll indicate when it happens.
Rachmaninov, Piano Concerto 3, second movement (3:05-3:23). That little cadenza (piano solo) in the middle of the slow movement gets me every time. So tragic, yet so powerful. LINK
Mozart, Requiem, Introit (07:00-07:10). When the choir sings "et lex perpetua luceat eis" (let perpetual light shine upon them), tears come out every time. It's beautiful and sad at the same time. Only Mozart can write like this. And in this recording, you can see that Bernstein is overwhelmed by this little sequence as well. LINK
Brahms, 4th symphony, second movement (03:48-04:38). It's the most incredible cello passage in symphonic literature. Every time I listen to this piece, I rewind to hear this a couple times. LINK
Radiohead, How To Disappear Completely (05:12-05:26). This is an amazing song on so many levels. Here, you can hear strong dissonance in the strings with no apparent direction, then the strings are silenced and you can only hear Thom's voice. Great production. This is a lot more amazing when you have some good headphones. LINK
Anyway, there are a lot more that I will post at a later point.
I'd like to hear what others will post. _________________ ¡Hala Madrid!
I love the ending (and everything else) about Motion Picture Soundtrack. The harp flourishes, the organ, and the way Thom's voice lifts up into the heavens. Gorgeous.
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 10:10 am Post subject:
ocho wrote:
To piggyback the Radiohead example...
I love the ending (and everything else) about Motion Picture Soundtrack. The harp flourishes, the organ, and the way Thom's voice lifts up into the heavens. Gorgeous.
Yeah, when I was listening to the Mozart clip, I was thinking, "where's radiohead?" _________________ “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” ― Elie Wiesel
I love the ending (and everything else) about Motion Picture Soundtrack. The harp flourishes, the organ, and the way Thom's voice lifts up into the heavens. Gorgeous.
Yeah, when I was listening to the Mozart clip, I was thinking, "where's radiohead?"
I forgot only Mozart can be appreciated _________________ 14-5-3-12
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 10:16 am Post subject:
ocho wrote:
24 wrote:
ocho wrote:
To piggyback the Radiohead example...
I love the ending (and everything else) about Motion Picture Soundtrack. The harp flourishes, the organ, and the way Thom's voice lifts up into the heavens. Gorgeous.
Yeah, when I was listening to the Mozart clip, I was thinking, "where's radiohead?"
I forgot only Mozart can be appreciated
You know I like Radiohead. It was just the piggyback remark, like they were naturally related... _________________ “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” ― Elie Wiesel
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 4:35 pm Post subject:
does Nirvana coming on to the music scene and virtually destroying and dismantling a whole genre of music...count? _________________ ♪ ♫One good thing about music, when it hits, you feel no pain...
So hit me with music! ♪ ♫
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 4:15 pm Post subject:
Free_Kobe wrote:
does Nirvana coming on to the music scene and virtually destroying and dismantling a whole genre of music...count?
What genre did Nirvana destroy? _________________ “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” ― Elie Wiesel
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Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 1:22 pm Post subject:
ocho wrote:
24 wrote:
Free_Kobe wrote:
does Nirvana coming on to the music scene and virtually destroying and dismantling a whole genre of music...count?
What genre did Nirvana destroy?
They're often credited with the destruction of Hair Metal.
Is that like being accused of curing polio? _________________ “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” ― Elie Wiesel
does Nirvana coming on to the music scene and virtually destroying and dismantling a whole genre of music...count?
What genre did Nirvana destroy?
They're often credited with the destruction of Hair Metal.
Is that like being accused of curing polio?
It's part of the legend of Cobain. He must be remembered as far greater than he actually was, and part of that is giving him credit for doing away with a crappy genre of music that would have died anyway. _________________ 14-5-3-12
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Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 11:43 pm Post subject:
ocho wrote:
24 wrote:
ocho wrote:
24 wrote:
Free_Kobe wrote:
does Nirvana coming on to the music scene and virtually destroying and dismantling a whole genre of music...count?
What genre did Nirvana destroy?
They're often credited with the destruction of Hair Metal.
Is that like being accused of curing polio?
It's part of the legend of Cobain. He must be remembered as far greater than he actually was, and part of that is giving him credit for doing away with a crappy genre of music that would have died anyway.
I find Cobain to be simultaneously overrated culturally, and underrated musically. _________________ “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” ― Elie Wiesel
Shostakovich, Symphony 10, first movement. This is a huge movement with many climaxes, but my favorite is when the clarinet enters at 2:50. Just beautiful. The greatest instrument of all.
This thread's true motive is for people to start listening to classical music! _________________ ¡Hala Madrid!
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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 6:56 am Post subject:
Ode to Joy... _________________ “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” ― Elie Wiesel
Shostakovich, Symphony 10, first movement. This is a huge movement with many climaxes, but my favorite is when the clarinet enters at 2:50. Just beautiful. The greatest instrument of all.
This thread's true motive is for people to start listening to classical music!
I've been waiting for a chance to listen to the pieces you linked piece by piece in order to see what it is in the moments you describe that brings such emotion. Simply haven't had the time to do them Justice yet.
I will say that for me, as a great Jazz music fan and terrible Jazz musician, those moments are what define the music. While Classical seems to me-as a not heavy listener-to be emotional and complex, it tends to use musical devices as social commentary and emotional grandeur. The piece builds up to the moment when the tension is released all at once to form once crescendo of musical bliss and overwhelming emotion.
Jazz musicians-Coltrane notwithstanding-for clarification see any of his versions of "Chasin' the Trane," have a minute, maybe 2 at most to use many of those same devices to create and resolve musical tension several times over.
So in my music, those moments come fast and furiously and sometimes they make me want to weep such is their brilliance, yet as quickly as they come, they're relegated to memory as the next onslaught on the staticism of harmonic and rhythmic consonance is begun.
I could post a few examples if you like.
And for the record, except in those moments where I am concentrating at my most extreme, such as a very complex case at work-there is ALWAYS some Jazz music playing in my head. Mostly those great moments of which we speak, or something I might be thinking of playing in my next session.
The music never leaves. _________________ “It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”
― James Baldwin, Collected Essays
Shostakovich, Symphony 10, first movement. This is a huge movement with many climaxes, but my favorite is when the clarinet enters at 2:50. Just beautiful. The greatest instrument of all.
This thread's true motive is for people to start listening to classical music!
Blasphemy!
http://www.global-b2b-network.com/direct/dbimage/50215543/Trumpet.jpg _________________ “It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”
― James Baldwin, Collected Essays
Shostakovich, Symphony 10, first movement. This is a huge movement with many climaxes, but my favorite is when the clarinet enters at 2:50. Just beautiful. The greatest instrument of all.
This thread's true motive is for people to start listening to classical music!
And now, ladies and gentlemen, the greatest musical sequence of all time. This trumps everything. Forget about drama, this is just pure joy.
My favorite symphony, my favorite piece of all time. Symphony No. 41, by Mozart, the so-called "Jupiter Symphony." More specifically, the coda of the last movement. This is a massive fugue built on five different musical themes that had been developed until that point. This entire movement is an amazing intellectual achievement, but it gets its climax when Mozart unleashes a Bach-like quintuple fugue. IMO, even Beethoven's 9th can't compare to this. And what's amazing about this symphony is that he wrote it in about two weeks, right after writing Symphony No. 40 and 39. Three complete symphonies in less than two months.
Listen to the whole movement, pay attention to the melodies that are repeated throughout, and then they will be played all at once in the coda, starting at 5:25 and ending at 5:50. So short, yet so immense in scope. I live for this symphony.
Shostakovich, Symphony 10, first movement. This is a huge movement with many climaxes, but my favorite is when the clarinet enters at 2:50. Just beautiful. The greatest instrument of all.
This thread's true motive is for people to start listening to classical music!
When I get the time, I'm gonna listen to those selections you gave us. In the mean time, try this.....
_________________ “It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”
― James Baldwin, Collected Essays
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 10:56 am Post subject:
KobeBryantCliffordBrown wrote:
Wilt wrote:
KobeBryantCliffordBrown wrote:
Wilt wrote:
Come on guys! I need some more moments!
Here's another very specific example.
Shostakovich, Symphony 10, first movement. This is a huge movement with many climaxes, but my favorite is when the clarinet enters at 2:50. Just beautiful. The greatest instrument of all.
This thread's true motive is for people to start listening to classical music!
When I get the time, I'm gonna listen to those selections you gave us. In the mean time, try this.....
I'm guessing both men would have appreciated the other. _________________ “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” ― Elie Wiesel
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