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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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Music:
- Richard Wetz: Symphony No. 2 in A (1919), Op. 47, performed by the Osaka Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hiroshi Kodama [original upload: GgzrghR4RhA]
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
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musicweb-international.com/classrev/2002/Feb02/Wetz.htm
musicweb-international.com/classrev/2001/May01/wetz.htm
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- Richard Wetz: Symphony No. 2 in A (1919), Op. 47, performed by the Osaka Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hiroshi Kodama [original upload: GgzrghR4RhA]
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
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![Great Composers: Richard Strauss
Twenty. Horns.
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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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- Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30, performed by the University of Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Barbara Schubert and available on IMSLP: https://tinyurl.com/y9vjftmu
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, Op. 1 No. 2, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
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![How to Run a Summer Festival [with Connecticut Summerfest co-founders Gala Flagello and Aaron Price]
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![The Theremin Cello [with Dr. Jonathan Golove]
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0:00 Introduction
0:21 History
6:06 How it Works
Thanks again to Dr. Golove for both his time and for lending me the space-control theremin seen briefly here and (more thoroughly) in my previous video.
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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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- Thomas Little: Dance! #2, sight-read by Jonathan Golove, theremin cello
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![Keyboards of the Sigal Music Museum [with Dr. Tom Strange]
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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: “C’est la Vie” from the Sonata for Violin and Piano (2018), performed by Michele Zimmerman and George Mobley and available for purchase on Bandcamp: https://lentovivace.bandcamp.com/album/sonata-for-violin-and-piano
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2, arranged for harpsichord and performed on the fly by Thomas Little
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![Great Composers: Leoš Janáček
A look at a unique Czech.
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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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- Leoš Janáček: Mládí, performed by the Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet and available on IMSLP: https://tinyurl.com/y75h34uv
- Video of conductor Jakub Hrůša discussing Leoš Janáček: uciNH5hCCvI
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, Op. 1 No. 2, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
- Boris Blank and Dieter Meier: Oh Yeah [original upload: 6jJkdRaa04g]
- Leoš Janáček: On an Overgrown Path, mvt. 1, performed by Chris Breemer
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![Great Composers: Gustav Mahler
A look at the last (Austro-Germanic) symphonist.
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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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- Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 9, Mvts. 3 and 4, performed by the University of Chicago Orchestra conducted by Barbara Schubert and available on IMSLP: https://tinyurl.com/y7m8eyjk
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, Op. 1 No. 2, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
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![Why Do Composers Write Silent Pieces?
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“Seeing the Sound of Silence in the Great War” by Esteban Buch (Musik in Konfrontation und Vermittlung. Beiträge zur Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung 2018 in Osnabrück p.101–13, 2019): https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02943670/document
“’Unsilencing’ the Silence: Unacknowledged Silent Pieces” by Eder Wilker Borges Pena (Opus 26/3, p. 1–26): http://dx.doi.org/10.20504/opus2020c2617
0:00 Introduction
1:00 John Cage’s 433 (1952)
3:41 Erwin Schulhoff’s “In Futurum” from Fünf Pittoresken (1919)
8:33 Alphonse Allais’ Funeral March (1897)
9:54 “Samuel’s” The Silence (1896)
11:09 Conclusion
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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- Thomas Little: Dance! #2, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
- John Cage: 4’33”, performed by William Marx [original upload: JTEFKFiXSx4]
- Erwin Schulhoff: “In Futurum” from 5 Pittoresken, performed in two different versions by Gerard Bouwhuis and “Barbaro Mr.” [original uploads: FBfOG0D39eo and 3c5lRRaW4Jw]
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![Arthur Honegger: The Humble Craftsman [Les Six, Pt. 4/7]
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📚 Sources/further reading:
“I am a Composer” by Arthur Honegger, translated by Wilson Clough and Allan Willman (Faber and Faber, 1966)
“Les Six: The French Composers and Their Mentors Jean Cocteau and Erik Satie,” edited by Robert Shapiro (Peter Owen Publishers, 2011)
“Arthur Honegger” by Paul Landormy and Fred Rothwell (The Musical Times, Vol. 70, No. 1039): https://www.jstor.org/stable/914732
“A Study of Arthur Honegger” by A. G. Browne (Music & Letters, Vol. 10, No. 4): https://www.jstor.org/stable/726129
“Darius Milhaud in the United States, 1940–71: Transatlantic Constructions of Musical Identity” by Erin K. Maher (PhD dissertation, University of North Carolina, 2011)
“An Analysis of Honegger’s Cello Concerto (1929): A Return to Simplicity?” by Denika Lam Kleinmann (DMA dissertation, University of North Texas, 2014): https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500189/m2/1/high_res_d/dissertation.pdf
Classical Nerd is a video series covering music history, theoretical concepts, and techniques, hosted by composer, pianist, and music history aficionado Thomas Little.
Music:
- Arthur Honegger: Sept Pièces Brèves (1920), performed by John Robson [free recordings courtesy pianosociety.com]
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
- Arthur Honegger: Concerto da Camera for Flute, English Horn and Strings (1948), performed by Fernand Dufrène, Paul Taillefer, and Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française conducted by Georges Tzipine [original upload: 0iphzdVU9kE]
- Arthur Honegger: Sonata for Cello and Piano (1920), performed by Valérie Aimard and Cédric Tiberghien [original upload: aqSFBwBC0S0]
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![Spectralism: An Introduction
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0:00 I: What is Spectralism?
5:03 II: Historical Precedents
11:03 III: French Spectralism
25:23 IV: Romanian Spectralism
32:41 V: Georg Friedrich Haas
36:44 VI: Conclusion
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📚 Sources/Further Reading:
“A Provisional History of Spectral Music” by Julian Anderson (Contemporary Music Review [CMR], 2000, Vol. 19/2, P. 7–22)
“Modern Music and After (3rd Edition)” by Paul Griffiths (Oxford University Press, 2010)
“Timbre Versus Spectralism” by Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea (CMR, 2003, Vol. 22/1+2, P. 87–104): https://doi.org/10.1080/0749446032000134751
“Clashing Harmonic Systems in Haas’s ‘Blumenstück’ and ‘in vain’” by Robert Hasegawa (Music Theory Spectrum, 2015, Vol. 37/2, P. 204–23)
“Romanian Spectral Music or Another Expression Freed” by Horia Surianu, trans. Joshua Fineberg (CMR, 2000, Vol. 19/2, P. 23–32)
“Spectralism Today: A survey of the consequences for contemporary composition of the French Spectral School of the 1970s and 1980s” by Philip Singleton (PhD thesis, University of Surrey, 2015)
“Spectralism” by Jonathan Harvey (Contemporary Music Review, 2001, Vol. 19/3, P. 11–14): https://music.arts.uci.edu/abauer/spectral/readings/Harvey_Spectralism.pdf
“French Spectralism: From the Frequency to the Temporal Domain: Analysis, Models, Synthesis … and Future Prospects” by Anne Sedes, trans. Wieland Hoban, from “Foundations of Contemporary Composition,” ed. Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf (Wolke Verlag, 2004, p. 118–29)
“Melody on the Threshold in Spectral Music” by James Donaldson (MTOSMT 2021, Vol. 27/2): https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.21.27.2/mto.21.27.2.donaldson.html
“Spectralism. Spectral composition techniques” by Iuliana Porcos (Bulletin of the Transylvania University of Braşov, 2017, Vol. 10/2)
“The Spectral Legacy” by John Croft (Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Vol. 135/1, P. 191–7): https://www.jstor.org/stable/43741611
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituaries-gerard-grisey-1186972.html
http://eamusic.dartmouth.edu/~larry/published_articles/tenney_monograph_soundings/14_Spectral_CANON.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs7b4WSxF3w
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: Dance! #2, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
- Tristan Murail: Désintégrations, performers unknown [original upload: 4basuUUatf8]
- Gérard Grisey: Partiels, performed by the Asko ensemble [original upload: 1v7onrjN6RE]
- Richard Wagner: Prelude to Das Rheingold, performers unknown [original upload: _1zsSaLiD7Q]
- Giacinto Scelsi: Four Pieces on a Single Note, performers unknown [original upload: 9I0QIRXcbZ4]
- Per Nørgård: Voyage into the Golden Screen, performed by the WDR Sinfonieorchester [original upload: Ty1fjlN2kuc]
- Karlheinz Stockhausen: Stimmung, performed by Collegium Vocale of Cologne conducted by Karlheinz Stockhausen [original upload: 3hPkJW95jsw]
- James Tenney: Spectral CANON for CONLON Nancarrow [original upload: hUrfKBnQ9a4]
- Jonathan Harvey: Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco [original upload: 0T-H-fVlHE0]
- Tristan Murail: Gondwana, performed by Orchestre National de France conducted by Yves Prin [original upload: 87-6mahJMgw]
- Clarence Barlow: Çoǧlu Otobüs İşletmesi, performed by Herbert Henck [original upload: alrB_pgM9eM]
- Claude Vivier: Lonely Child, performed by Marie-Danielle Parent and the Orchéstre Métropolitain de Montréal conducted by Serge Garant [original upload: qrIA2KbJkaE]
- Corneliu Cezar: Aum [original upload: vy-w82ixW3U]
- Horaţiu Rădulescu: Credo, performed by Stephan Breith, Ulrich Heinen, and Othello Liesmann [original upload: etI06pyL7As]
- Georg Friedrich Haas: in vain, performed by Klangforum Wien conducted by Sylvain Cambreling [original upload: BdaX8yWBWtY]
- Georg Friedrich Haas: String Quartet No. 1, performed by the Kairos Quartett [original upload: 1jadUqWXYAw]
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![Great Composers: Iannis Xenakis
Architecture? In classical music? Its more likely than you think.
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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:
- Iannis Xenakis: Keqrops (1986), performed by Claudio Abbado and the Mahlerjugendorchester conducted by Roger Woodward [original upload: xFOUBHJp3Ms]
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, Op. 1 No. 2, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
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