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Classical Nerd is a video series covering music history, theoretical concepts, and techniques, hosted by composer, pianist, and music history aficionado Thomas Little.
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- Mikko Sirola: Three Waltzes for Piano [MIDI render]
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
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- Mikko Sirola: Three Waltzes for Piano [MIDI render]
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
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![Navigating Soviet Waters: The Life and Works of Aram Khachaturian
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“Aram Khachaturian and Socialist Realism: A Reconsideration” by Joseph Schultz: http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/1450-9814/2016/1450-98141620087S.pdf
“Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978): A Retrospective” by David Z. Kushner (Professor Emeritus of Musicology, University of Florida), Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts, Volume 5, Issue 4: https://www.athensjournals.gr/humanities/2018-5-4-1-Kushner.pdf
“National Identity Construction in Music: A Case Study of Aram Khachaturian” by Brigitta Davidjants: https://resmusica.ee/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/rm9_2017_7-17_Davidjants.pdf
“Chamber Music in the Early Twentieth Century: Features of Aram Khachaturian’s ‘Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano in G Minor’ and Béla Bartók’s ‘Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano’” by Man Wang (DMA Dissertation, University of Kansas, 2018): https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/bitstream/handle/1808/27103/Wang_ku_0099D_15954_DATA_1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
“The Significance of Aram Khachaturian and His Piano Concerto” by Sarah M. Dardarian (DMA Dissertation, University of Western Ontario, 2018): https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7141&context=etd
“The Music That Shaped a Nation: The Role of Folk Music, the Duduk, and Clarinet in the Works of Contemporary Armenian Composers Aram Khachaturian and Vache Sharafyan” by Anastasia Christofakis (DM Dissertation, Florida State University, 2005)
“Politics of Ethnogenesis in the USSR and After” by Victor A. Shnirelman (Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology, Vol. 30 No. 1, 2005)
https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000014956
http://www.khachaturian.am/eng/biography.htm
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Aram-Khachaturian
Classical Nerd is a video series covering music history, theoretical concepts, and techniques, hosted by composer, pianist, and music history aficionado Thomas Little.
Music:
- Aram Khachaturian: Poem (1927) [original upload: x11pazHbB6g]
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
- Aram Khachaturian: Trio for Violin, Clarinet and Piano (1932) [original upload: ys1W_Yhygvg]
- Aram Khachaturian: Album for Children, Volume I (1947), performed by Sahan Arzruni [original upload: ZTg1jwGKkyk]
- Aram Khachaturian: Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia from Spartacus Suite No. 2 (1955), performed by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Albrecht Mayer [original upload: mH13v2yy_6A]
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![Reviewing Overscore
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Classical Nerd is a video series covering music history, theoretical concepts, and techniques, hosted by composer, pianist, and music history aficionado Thomas Little.
Music:
- Thomas Little: Awakening for wind ensemble (MIDI render & Overscore render)
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
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![Great Composers: Bohuslav Martinů
A look at an heir to the legacy of Dvořák.
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Classical Nerd is a weekly video series covering music history, theoretical concepts, and techniques, hosted by composer, pianist, and music history aficionado Thomas Little.
Music:
- Bohuslav Martinů: Piano Sonata, performed by Rudolf Firkušný [original upload: kQbNJjj8mlk]
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, Op. 1 No. 2, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
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![Writing for Eighth Blackbird: Episode 3
Wrapping things up.
Classical Nerd is a weekly video series covering music history, theoretical concepts, and techniques, hosted by composer, pianist, and music history aficionado Thomas Little.
Music:
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, Op. 1 No. 2, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
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![Harry Partch and his Microtonal Carpentry [Harry Partch, Pt. 1/2]
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📚 Sources/further reading:
“Genesis of a Music” by Harry Partch (1949)
“The Intonation Systems of Harry Partch” by Petter Ekman (BA Thesis, Iceland Academy of the Arts): https://skemman.is/bitstream/1946/8545/1/Lokaritgerd.pdf
“‘Unstuck in Time’: Harry Partch’s Bilocated Life” by Jake Johnson, 2015 (Journal of the Society for American Music, Vol. 9 No. 2)
“Keynote Address for the 2012 Harry Partch Conference in Boston” by Kyle Gann: https://www.kylegann.com/PartchKeynote.html
“Harry Partch and the Philosopher’s Tone” by Philip Blackburn, 2007 (Hyperion, Vol. III, Issue 1): http://contramundum.net/assets/hfa_3.1_2008.pdf
“Harry Partch, At a Glance” by Eric M. Gewirtz, 2015: http://pastseasons.lincolncenterfestival.org/past-seasons-files/2015/assets/img/downloads/Partch.pdf
“Trains, Railroad Workers and Illegal Riders: The Subcultural World of Hobo Graffiti” by John F. Lennon, 2016 (from the Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art)
http://media.virbcdn.com/files/c3/754bf16fde98493b-Vol3LinerNotes.pdf
https://www.secondinversion.org/tag/adapted-viola/
http://www.echo.ucla.edu/two-studies-harry-partch-conversations-danlee-mitchell-betty-freeman-jake-johnson/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Harry-Partch
https://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~talon/MUSIC6.PDF
https://music.washington.edu/news/2014/11/20/harry-partch-instrumentarium-takes-residency-uw
Classical Nerd is a video series covering music history, theoretical concepts, and techniques, hosted by composer, pianist, and music history aficionado Thomas Little.
Music:
- Harry Partch: Delusion of the Fury (1966), conducted by Danlee Mitchell
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
Demonstration of the 43-tone scale on the Chromelodeon originally found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iabv_G5Rwc
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![Great Composers: Eugen Suchoň
A look at an important Slovakian.
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Classical Nerd is a weekly video series covering music history, theoretical concepts, and techniques, hosted by composer, pianist, and music history aficionado Thomas Little.
Music:
- Eugen Suchoň: Ked Sa Vlci Zisli, performed by the Charleston Virtuosi String Quartet [original upload: hTWUVRggvTA]
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, Op. 1 No. 2, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
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![Amédée Méreaux and his Infamous Études
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https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/59f6/9c32ae1fd0588e4984e9e72f13e35b29edbe.pdf
https://mereaux.pagesperso-orange.fr/Amedee_Mereaux.htm
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.612.2179&rep=rep1&type=pdf
http://darwin-online.org.uk/converted/pdf/1866_cut_A167.pdf
https://ethaniverson.com/interviews/interview-with-marc-andre-hamelin/
Classical Nerd is a video series covering music history, theoretical concepts, and techniques, hosted by composer, pianist, and music history aficionado Thomas Little.
Music:
- Amédée Méreaux: String Quartet Op. 121 (pub. 1877), performed by Steve’s Bedroom Band and available on IMSLP: https://tinyurl.com/mereaux
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, Op. 1 No. 2, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
- Amédée Méreaux: Étude Op. 63 #45, “Scherzo” [MIDI render, original upload: bSHjm1Uafd0]
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![Great Composers: Anton Webern
A look at the grandfather of serialism.
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Classical Nerd is a weekly video series covering music history, theoretical concepts, and techniques, hosted by composer, pianist, and music history aficionado Thomas Little.
Music:
- Anton Webern: Variations, Op. 27, performed by Chiara Bertoglio
[free recording courtesy pianosociety.com]
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, Op. 1 No. 2, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
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![Great Composers: Aaron Copland
A look at the Dean of American Composers.
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Classical Nerd is a weekly video series covering music history, theoretical concepts, and techniques, hosted by composer, pianist, and music history aficionado Thomas Little.
Music:
- Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring, performed by the Sydney Camerata Chamber Orchestra conducted by Luke Gilmour [original upload: CJYVH_kZkOk]
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, Op. 1 No. 2, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
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![A Death at the Organ: The Life and Works of Louis Vierne
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📚 Sources/further reading:
“Louis Vierne: Organist of Notre Dame Cathedral” by Rollin Smith
https://curate.nd.edu/downloads/pk02c82416n=
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849666/m2/1/high_res_d/LEE-DISSERTATION-2016.pdf
https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2022/21344/Kang%2C%20Woosug%20%28DM%20Organ%29.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
https://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/handle/1911/17986/3021144.PDF?sequence=1
https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/handle/1773/41829
http://philosopherswheel.com/vierne.htm
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/louis-vierne-concert-organist-tribute_b_1559222
Special thanks to Raymond (https://www.raymondhawkinsmusic.com/) for starring as his favorite composer for this video!
Classical Nerd is a video series covering music history, theoretical concepts, and techniques, hosted by composer, pianist, and music history aficionado Thomas Little.
Music:
- Louis Vierne: Symphony No. 6, Mvt. 5, performed by Raymond Hawkins
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, arranged à la Louis Vierne and performed by Raymond Hawkins
- Louis Vierne: Nocturne, Op. 34 No. 3, performed by Jean Dubé and available on IMSLP: https://tinyurl.com/y2ctujrz
- Louis Vierne: Piano Quintet, Op. 42, performed by Anne Robert, Marcelle Mallette, Neal Gripp, Elizabeth Dolin, and Jamie Parker [original upload: T9rCTrkIKnM]
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![Great Performers: György Cziffra
The last of the Lisztians.
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Classical Nerd is a weekly video series covering music history, theoretical concepts, and techniques, hosted by composer, pianist, and music history aficionado Thomas Little.
Music:
- György Cziffra: Improvisation [original upload: GF-Ix0k60ts]
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, Op. 1 No. 2, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
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