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Assorted items / YouTube performances / Alan Hovhaness Symphonies - No Link, No Youtube
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on: July 05, 2017, 06:48:38 pm
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Symphony # 1, "Exile", Op. 17, # 2 | Symphony # 2, "Mysterious Mountain", Op. 132 | Symphony # 3, Op. 148 | Symphony # 4, Op. 165 | Symphony # 6 , "Celestial Gate", Op. 173 | Symphony # 7 , "Nanga Parvat", Op. 178 | Symphony # 9 , "Saint Vartan", Op. 180 | Symphony # 10 , "Vahaken", Op. 184 | Symphony # 11 , "All Men Are Brothers", Op. 186 | Symphony # 12 , "Choral", Op. 188 | Symphony # 14 , "Ararat", Op. 194 | Symphony # 15 , "Silver Pilgrimage", Op. 199 | Symphony # 17 , "Symphony for Metal, Orchestra", Op. 203 | Symphony # 18 , "Circe", Op. 204a | Symphony # 19 , "Vishnu", Op. 217 | Symphony # 20 , "Three Journeys to a Holy Mountain", Op. 223 | Symphony # 21 , "Symphony Etchmiadzin", Op. 234 | Symphony # 22, "City, Of Light", Op. 236 | Symphony # 23 , "Ani", Op. 249 | Symphony # 24 , "Majnun Symphony", Op. 273 | Symphony # 25 , "Odysseus Symphony", Op. 275 | Symphony # 26 , "Consolation", Op. 280 | Symphony # 29, Op. 289 | Symphony # 31, Op. 294 | Symphony # 36, Op. 312 | Symphony # 39, Op. 321 | Symphony # 46 , "To the Green Mountains", Op. 347 | Symphony # 47 , "Walla Walla, Land, Of Many Waters", Op. 348 | Symphony # 49 , "Christmas Symphony", Op. 356 | Symphony # 50, "Mount St. Helens", Op. 360 | Symphony # 53 , "Star Dawn", Op. 377 | Symphony # 60, "To the Appalachian Mountains", Op. 396 | Symphony # 63, "Loon Lake", Op. 411 | Symphony # 66, "Hymn to Glacier Peak", Op. 428 |
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MEMBERS' CORNER / Miscellany / Re: What are the most annoying things about modern composers?
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on: July 03, 2017, 11:06:34 pm
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Here are two annoyances:
Composers who claim that nothing more can be done with tonality because so many composers have used it in the past, so that it is now exhausted. You might as well say that no more poetry can be written in English for the same reason. It just shows a lack of imagination.
Composers who claim to "reinvent musical language" with every new piece. For crying out loud!
On more reflection, I come to think about non tonal music as use of an expanded pallets. Though most of my compositions are tonal I make an occasional foray to the 'dark side' Chaos: The Sedimentary Lines of the Grand CanyonThe expansion of "tonality" into areas that some might describe as "non-tonality" or "atonality" has only served to widen the expressive capabilities of music. I don't know why "atonlaity" - whatever that might mean to whomsoever - should be regarded as some kind of "dark side" as though this could and should be thought of as its only possible manifestation. When I said, "Dark Side", I was being very tongue and cheek. I have participated on other sites where anything but conservative tonality was described by a couple of users as, "Disgusting". When I suggested to them that They needed to get over the fact that Robert Schumann was dead, they weren't happy. LOL I imagine that I might just be able to guess one particular site to which you allude, but no names and all that... ;D There may be more than one now that I think of it
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MEMBERS' CORNER / Miscellany / Re: What are the most annoying things about modern composers?
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on: July 03, 2017, 09:31:49 pm
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Here are two annoyances:
Composers who claim that nothing more can be done with tonality because so many composers have used it in the past, so that it is now exhausted. You might as well say that no more poetry can be written in English for the same reason. It just shows a lack of imagination.
Composers who claim to "reinvent musical language" with every new piece. For crying out loud!
On more reflection, I come to think about non tonal music as use of an expanded pallets. Though most of my compositions are tonal I make an occasional foray to the 'dark side' Chaos: The Sedimentary Lines of the Grand CanyonThe expansion of "tonality" into areas that some might describe as "non-tonality" or "atonality" has only served to widen the expressive capabilities of music. I don't know why "atonlaity" - whatever that might mean to whomsoever - should be regarded as some kind of "dark side" as though this could and should be thought of as its only possible manifestation. When I said, "Dark Side", I was being very tongue and cheek. I have participated on other sites where anything but conservative tonality was described by a couple of users as, "Disgusting". When I suggested to them that They needed to get over the fact that Robert Schumann was dead, they weren't happy. LOL
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MEMBERS' CORNER / Miscellany / Re: Onno van Rijen's Shostakovich & Other Soviet Composers Page
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on: July 03, 2017, 09:23:12 pm
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The information is not the same. This is a comprehensive list of all recordings. Onno's site had in addition to recordings the complete work list of each composer with dates. An archive version is here: http://archive.is/mHjLQYes I was also a member of Onno's group. Sorry that he had to shut it down. what was unique was the recordings that were posted there. Also, his updates on new recordings, etc. I didn't know Onno personally, but I had the impression he was getting up there in age. However, it would be possible to migrate most if not all the downloads here and info about the composers here also. Is there an efficient way to move it? Lots of good info there. If the website is regular HTML it is possible to convert to UBB which is what is used here for images and links.
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MEMBERS' CORNER / Miscellany / Re: What are the most annoying things about modern composers?
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on: July 03, 2017, 07:34:43 pm
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Here are two annoyances:
Composers who claim that nothing more can be done with tonality because so many composers have used it in the past, so that it is now exhausted. You might as well say that no more poetry can be written in English for the same reason. It just shows a lack of imagination.
Composers who claim to "reinvent musical language" with every new piece. For crying out loud!
On more reflection, I come to think about non tonal music as use of an expanded pallets. Though most of my compositions are tonal I make an occasional foray to the 'dark side' Chaos: The Sedimentary Lines of the Grand Canyon
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MEMBERS' CORNER / Miscellany / Re: What are the most annoying things about modern composers?
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on: July 03, 2017, 09:18:38 am
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Here are two annoyances:
Composers who claim that nothing more can be done with tonality because so many composers have used it in the past, so that it is now exhausted. You might as well say that no more poetry can be written in English for the same reason. It just shows a lack of imagination.
Composers who claim to "reinvent musical language" with every new piece. For crying out loud!
I think you are onto something. Tonality lives - those who deny it are probably lazy
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MEMBERS' CORNER / Members' own compositions, performances & productions / Re: Links to Music on Soundcloud
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on: July 02, 2017, 10:34:40 pm
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Music of Edward Schaffer © 1961-2017 Page VIII Symphony #53, UFO, Op 334 Symphony #54, Op 335Symphony #55, Op 336Symphony #56, Op 339Symphony #57, Op 340Royal Procession of the Emperor of Pluto, Op 342Symphony #58, Van Gogh, Op 343Symphony #59, Dinosauria, Op 344Symphony #60, Op 345Click on Desired Link
Note Soundcloud is reduced. I will work on new links...
Here are new works since the update:
Symphony 61, Op 348 Symphony 62, In One Movement, Op 349 Symphony 63, Op 350 Symphony 64, Op 351 Symphony 65, Op 352 Symphony 66, Op 353 Symphony 67, In One Movement - Mad as Hell, Op 354 Symphony 68, In One Movement - Mad but Resolved, Op 355 Symphony 69, Op 356 (Op 357 not complete) Piano Sonata, Op 358 Symphony 70, Op 359 Symphony 71, Op 360 Symphony 72, Op 361 Popol Vuh, Op 362 Rufus and the Saucer, Opera in 2 Acts, Op 363 (Duration about 1:45) Symphony 73, Op 364 Symphony 74, Op 365 Trumpet Concerto, Op 366 Symphony 75, Op 367 Symphony 76, Short Statements of The Rabble, Op 368 Symphony 77, A Family, Op 369 Symphony 78, Op 370 Symphony 79, Op 371
In most of the links there is some text to support the music - Either a program, poem or other description.... PM me with any questions
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MEMBERS' CORNER / Members' own compositions, performances & productions / Re: Links to Music on Soundcloud
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on: July 02, 2017, 10:32:10 pm
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Music of Edward Schaffer © 1961-2017 Page VII Two Kids and a New Puppy, Op 287 Symphony #42, Op 288Exoplanet Dawn, Op 289 The Raven and the Owl, A Kwakiutl Legend, Op 290 Mystic Trumpeter on the Mountaintop, Op 291 Numenor Asunder, Op 292 The Geysers of Enceladus, Op 293 On the Surface of Titan, Op 294 Black-Eye Mimas with the Huygens Tattoo, Op 295 Bipolar Iapetus, Op 296 Oddrock Hyperion, The Sponge Moon, Op 298 Ex-Comet Phoebe, Op 299 Symphony #43, Op 300Aryabhata, Op 301 And, They Escaped – The Feral Parrots, More Bird Ver Op 302a Symphony #44, Op 303Ceres, The Dwarf Planet, Op 304 Symphonic March, Op 307 Symphony #45, Op 308Assertions, Op 310 Symphony #46, Op 311On the High Plains, Op 312 The West Wind, Op 313 Persistence, for Wordless Chorus, Op 315 Light in Dark Matter, Op 316 Meditation under the Full Moon, Extended Op 317a The Mood of Thor, Op 318 Symphony #47, Op 319Nocturne for Trumpet, Op 320 Symphony #48, ‘The Trees’, Op 322Ale’s Death; Legacy of a 125 Year Old Norwegian Eel, Op 323 Marco Polo In Xanadu, Op 324 Symphony #49, Scottish Symphony-Poem, Op 325 Symphony #50, Op 326Fantasia on ‘Dives and Lazarus’, Op 328 Symphony #51, Op 329Symphony #52, Interstellar Medium, Op 330The Lake in the Spring, Op 331Solar System Anthems, Op 332Click on Desired Link
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