"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
Monday, February 26, 2024
Classical corner
Béla Bartók's Music for Strings. Eerie, ominous...good haunted house music.
I once spent a lot of time trying to get into the piece, because it's a 20th C masterpiece and all that. But unless you're trained in reading music, which I'm not, the appeal of it is just its mood, and this 3rd Movt would be the best part for that. Kubrick used it in Shining. Vampira used it as a theme song in the 1950s too, they say.
Movement 3 from this work:
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As soon as the music ended every door in the house slammed shut. Coincidence, I'm sure.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Bruce. The notes under the video were kind of sparse, and I was too lazy to look this thing up.
ReplyDeleteI once spent a lot of time trying to get into the piece, because it's a 20th C masterpiece and all that. But unless you're trained in reading music, which I'm not, the appeal of it is just its mood, and this 3rd Movt would be the best part for that. Kubrick used it in Shining. Vampira used it as a theme song in the 1950s too, they say.
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