Prokofiev's Visions Fugitives, a cycle of piano miniatures. Here's more than you probably ever wanted to know about the composition.
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Prokofiev's Visions Fugitives, a cycle of piano miniatures. Here's more than you probably ever wanted to know about the composition.
I believe dissonant music only belongs in soundtracks for scifi and horror shows.
ReplyDeleteWell, you can't dance the Cotton-eyed Joe to it, that's for sure.
DeleteDebussy is often dissonant. These pieces follow Debussy's lead I think. There are 20 different pieces here, I listened to a couple, which seemed beautiful and atmospheric.
ReplyDeleteBut I think the musicians' technical idea of dissonance is different from the popular notion. Even the basic 7th chord used in all popular music is dissonant. That's why our ancestors would have found all our modern music using 7ths as barbaric, raucous noise.
https://en.wikipedia.or/wiki/Seventh_chord
- Bruce
Schubert used a trick we take for granted nowadays: switching back and forth from major to minor to major scales. It sounds beautiful and emotional to us, but conservative reviewers in his day thought he was insane, 'Which is it, major or minor? Lunacy!'. That was the Romantic era when they expressed emotion, 'Storm and Stress'. This was followed by the Impressionistic era of Debussy where composers painted with sound, notes like brush strokes.
ReplyDeleteI have an old book in which the author writes in great detail about Schubert's musical insanity, picks him to pieces over key changes. Yet if we listen to these pieces we think they are lovely.
- Bruce
BTW I'm not arguing with you Rebecca, but with Wikipedia. What you said is fine.
ReplyDeleteI looked up the Wikipedia article for these pieces which said they use 'dissonant harmonies'. Well, yeah, but that can mean all sorts of things.
- Bruce