The DWR Classical Interlude – Piano Piece with Perfect Harmony
November 17, 2017 in Music | Tags: Perfect Harmony, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude | by The Arbourist
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7 comments
November 17, 2017 at 6:53 am
Steve Ruis
Beautiful. were the chord changes flashing on the screen for another instrument as the sheet music didn’t show those?
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November 17, 2017 at 7:34 am
albertaD
Thank you for a beautiful listen to start my morning. I hadn’t heard that piece before – and now I want to play it!
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November 17, 2017 at 8:12 am
tildeb
Not a fan of Shostakovitch… because he doesn’t seem to be able to write melody. This piece personifies the problem. It is sterile. Go ahead and try to hum a few bars.
Brute music as craft, as organized sound, is about chords in some kind of progression (solid or broken). But music as art uses harmony and dissonance to effect the meaning through melody, through a musical experience like a journey, a story, something with a beginning, a middle, and an end, something with characters and plot within a setting, something worth listening to because it’s a musical experience; this is what Shostakovitch lacks. To engage the audience, one needs a common language to communicate this experience and this is what Shostakovitch doesn’t provide. And without melody, one has chords in either empty progressions or disturbing progressions. It’s pretty because it doesn’t clash but empty because it has no melody. It’s the equivalent of New Age computer generated ‘mood’ music – full of sound but empty of musicality, full of craft but empty of artistry. That’s Shostakovitch in a nutshell. It almost sounds like music.
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November 18, 2017 at 9:45 am
The Arbourist
@Steven Ruis
The letter that were flashing on screen were displaying what key the music was in at the time.
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November 18, 2017 at 9:46 am
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@albertaD
Friday’s are like that around here. We really enjoy the Baroque period around here, but make forays into all musical genres..:)
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November 18, 2017 at 9:50 am
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@Tildeb
That’s pretty savage. :) Well said though.
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November 25, 2017 at 11:26 am
Steve Ruis
There were no key changes in the sheet music, so was that happenstance or ? I am used to key changes being written in.
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