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Assorted items / General musical discussion / Re: Malipiero and Braga Santos
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on: April 28, 2015, 06:28:46 pm
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One could argue John Adams had a style evolution. He used to be straight up minimalist but now is more neo-romantic. Basically it's probably easier to find a list of composers who have NOT evolved their style because as Shostakovitch put it, "A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one." which in itself implies an evolution otherwise you are repeating what you said musically.
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on: April 27, 2015, 09:56:11 am
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Hopefully this will be relevant - my list of symphonic composers who shifted from tonal to atonal (or otherwise). Not all could be painted with the same brush.
composer (years composing tonal symphonies vs. atonal/nontonal symphonies)
Absil 1 tonal vs. 4 nontonal
Atterberg 1911-1944 vs. 1953-1956
Branco 1924 vs 1926-1952
Casella 1905-1909 vs. 1940
Eshpai 2 tonal vs 7 atonal
Flem 1908 vs. 1958-1974
Flury 1923-1946 vs. 1946-1951
Holler 1946 vs 1973
Johann Nepomuk David 1937 vs 1938-1965
Kabelac 1942-1960 vs. 1962-1970
Kallstenius 4 tonal vs. 1 12-tone
Klenau 1908-1913 vs. 1935-1946
Langgaard 1911 vs 1914-1951
Lloyd 1932-1948 vs 1956-1989
Melartin 1902-1915 vs. 1924
Merikanto 1916-1918 vs 1952
Meulemans 1931-1933 vs. 1933-1960
Moyzes 1929-1951 vs. 1955-1983
Nowowiejski 1904 vs. 1907-1941
Peiko 1946-1985 vs 1990-1993
Rakov 1940-1962 vs 1973
Revol Bunin 1943 vs 1945-1975
Ridky 1924-1931 vs 1938-1956
Rivier 1932-1961 vs 1978
Schreker 1899 vs. 1916
Scott 1899-1903 vs. 1939-1952
Scriabin 1900-1904 vs. 1908-1910
Simonsen 1920-1921 vs 1923-1925
Skulte 1954-1965 vs 1974-1987
Szymanowski 1907-1910 vs. 1916-1932
Tubin 1934-1946 vs 1954-1982
Wellesz 1945-1948 vs. 1951-1971
Wordsworth 1944-1960 vs 1977-1986
Yamada 1912 vs. 1916-1934
Zolotarev 1902-1942 vs. 1944-1962
Hmm, how exactly are you defining tonal versus atonal because your list above seems questionable in some cases and not exactly following the definition but maybe more personal style shifts in some cases. Tonal means there is a tonal or harmonic center (or tonic) and atonal would mean it is without a tonal center. I doubt Wordsworth, atterberg, tubin and some others technically qualify from your list. I don't think Lloyd qualifies as ever having been atonal let alone for the last three decades of his output. |
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Downloads by surname / Downloads: discussion without links / Re: Norwegian Music
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on: March 13, 2015, 07:34:11 am
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The link that relm1 has posted seems to be sheet music.
The link item that says "format: cd" is sheet music? The contents of which exactly match my cd? But what do I know. And someone else posted to the Amazon link which is the same CD for the same price I paid for it. |
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Assorted items / Individual composers / Re: John McCabe(1939-2015): R.I.P.
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on: February 17, 2015, 03:17:08 am
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I had completely missed the news and premiere of the Maxwell Davies Symphony No.10.
(Did we not get an off-air recording for our archives??) Aaaaghh!! Stupid me :-[ I seem to have a recording on my hard-drive :)
Pardon my ignorance, but if Scottish composers are included in your list of living "British" symphonists, should an Irish composer like John Kinsella who is at No. 10 (with plans for 11) be included? Apologies if this is considered an offensive question. |
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Assorted items / Individual composers / Re: John McCabe(1939-2015): R.I.P.
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on: February 16, 2015, 05:55:30 pm
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I have not contributed to this Forum for more than six months (I shall explain the reason for that elsewhere) but I am impelled to return in order to pay tribute to the late John McCabe, that extraordinarily distinguished British composer, pianist, writer on music, educator.
There already have been and no doubt will be further eloquent obituaries of McCabe in the national press. I have been listening to some of his marvellous orchestral music this evening. We are extraordinarily lucky to have a very considerable number of his major compositions in our Archive on this site. Although only three of McCabe's seven symphonies have been commercially recorded (Nos. 1, 2 and 4-and the recordings of the first two of these are somewhat aged), the other symphonies-with the exception of No.6 "Symphony on a Pavane"-can be obtained from AMF. So too the Violin Concerto No.2 and the Cello Concerto and the Horn Concerto.
McCabe's music is complex but accessible and the product of a genuine musical sensitivity. I certainly would have rated him, alongside Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and David Matthews, as one of the three most distinguished British symphonists still with us.
The list I compiled last year (from which I have now with sadness removed McCabe's name) of living British symphonists is short:
DEREK BOURGEOIS(73): 101
SIR PETER MAXWELL DAVIES (80): 9
DAVID MATTHEWS (71): 7
CHRISTOPHER GUNNING (70): 7
JOHN PICKARD (51): 5 (one withdrawn and one forthcoming)
MALCOLM LIPKIN (82): 3
DAVID ELLIS (81): 3
JOHN MAXWELL GEDDES (73): 3
OLIVER KNUSSEN (62): 3
JAMES MACMILLAN (55): 3
MATTHEW TAYLOR (50): 3
(Anthony Hedges (83), Alexander Goehr (82), amd Gordon Crosse (77) have each written two symphonies)
The death of John McCabe, following so soon after the death of Arthur Butterworth, removes a composer who should almost certainly have received more acknowledgement as one of the very finest of modern British composers still writing in the traditional musical forms. I mourn his passing.
Sad news! Maxwell Davies has 10 symphonies by the way. |
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