Uploaded August 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A look at "the stratospheric colossus of sound."
This was a request from Tyson Davis. See all current requests at lentovivace.com/requestqueue.html
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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.
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Music:
- Edgard Varèse: Amériques, performed by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Chailly [original upload: 8zXaEwWFbnA]
- 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 look at "the stratospheric colossus of sound."
This was a request from Tyson Davis. See all current requests at lentovivace.com/requestqueue.html
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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.
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Music:
- Edgard Varèse: Amériques, performed by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Chailly [original upload: 8zXaEwWFbnA]
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, Op. 1 No. 2, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
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Contact Information:
Questions and comments can be directed to:
nerdofclassical [at] gmail.com
Tumblr:
classical-nerd.tumblr.com
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All images and audio in this video are for educational purposes only and are not intended as copyright infringement. If you have a copyright concern, please contact me using the above information.
![Modest Mussorgsky: The Troubled Dramatist [The Mighty Handful, Pt. 5/6]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XXXycC1h1ko/mqdefault.jpg "Modest Mussorgsky: The Troubled Dramatist [The Mighty Handful, Pt. 5/6]
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📚 Sources/further reading:
“Musorgsky: His Life and Works” by David Brown
“Pianistic Mastery of Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition: Developing Associative Thinking through Analysis of Musical Texture” by Ana Cristea (DMA Dissertation, University of Miami, 2016): https://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2637&context=oa_dissertations
“Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition: Identifying the Expressive Narrative through Comparisons with Vocal Literature” by Matthew Quick (DMA Dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2014): https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=ucin1406819727&disposition=inline
“Correcting the Record: A Comparison of Vladimir Ashkenazy’s Urtext-Based Edition of ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ with Orchestration by Ravel and Stokowski” by Hoon Choi (DMA Dissertation, University of North Texas, 2012): https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc149572/m2/1/high_res_d/dissertation.pdf
“A Stylistic Analysis of the Early and Late Songs of Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1836–1881)” by Daniel Johnson (MM Thesis, Texas Tech University, 1976): https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/bitstream/handle/2346/15681/31295015502858.pdf?sequence=1
Classical Nerd is a video series covering music history, theoretical concepts, and techniques, hosted by composer, pianist, and music history aficionado Thomas Little.
Music:
- Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (1874), performed by Chiara Bertoglio and available on IMSLP: https://tinyurl.com/PixatanExhibition
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
- Modest Mussorgsky: Night on [the] Bald[/Bare] Mountain (1867), performed by the London Philharmonic conducted by David Lloyd-Jones [original upload: zR2P-5J-2MA]
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