The Chord That Ended Classical Music

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  @theartofstorytelling1 · 4 months ago · pinned

  Suggestions for interesting pieces of music I should cover?

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• AL

  @alfalfafield · 4 months ago

  A friend and I tried to cover John Cage's 4'33'' as a duet for piano for a high school talent show...it didn't go well lol, the audience got pretty unruly

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• LI

  @liamhemmings9039 · 4 months ago

  Using Stravinsky over the Star Wars clip was a brilliant and cheeky move. Excellent, informative and utterly unpretentiousness as usual. Bravo.

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• JA

  @jameseisaacs · 4 months ago

  The Tristan Chords move to Dominant Seventh chords - and we finally DO get a resolution  4 1/2 hours later, when the two lovers are finally together, in death.

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• JA

  @jake6112 · 4 months ago

  I was expecting the Tristan chord. Also groundbreaking and outrageous to the first audiences to hear it!

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  @rumi9005 · 4 months ago (edited)

  My sister and I were in our early teens and visiting London (UK) in 1963.<br>Our father had introduced us to composers like Beethoven and Haydn and such so we were not total newbies to &apos;classical music&apos; at that point. --- The &apos;Promenade Concerts&apos; (at the Royal Albert Hall) were happening and we decided to see if we could get in. Of course, they were sold out and had been for months. But there were a couple of seats together (&apos;up in the &apos;Gods&apos;) for only one concert. And the main piece was Stravinsky&apos;s &apos;The Right of Spring&apos;. We&apos;d never heard of it and barely knew the name Stravinsky at that point in our lives. But beggars can&apos;t be choosers and we bought the tickets anyway.<br>I forget what was on the rest of the program but when they started playing &apos;The Right of Spring&apos; I was totally taken aback. This was like nothing we&apos;d ever heard.<br>That opening was shocking, yet amazing. It just grabbed your attention.<br>I bought an LP of &apos;The Right of Spring&apos; a few years later. And on the other side was Stravinsky&apos;s &apos;The Soldier&apos;s Tale&apos;. Which for a time actually became my favorite piece of the two!<br>One more thing! We didn&apos;t know, before or during the concert, but Stravinsky was actually in the audience for that performance.<br>He walked out onto the stage and was introduced by the conductor, Pierre Monteux. And got a standing ovation, of course. It was exactly fifty years, to the day, since the piece was first played in Paris in 1913. - Which led to riots in the theatre at that time. And the conductor, Pierre Monteux, conducted that performance, through the rioting, too.

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• TI

  @TimothyZhou0 · 4 months ago

  The joy on Stravinsky&apos;s face as he bangs the chord out just made my day XD <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCOZ2TSeJv8&amp;t=777">12:57</a>

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  @TimCampbellVO · 4 months ago

  Hey one for us classical musicians! Thanks for taking me straight back to Music History 570...except I stayed awake for the entire video! Cheers!

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  @brianmessemer2973 · 4 months ago (edited)

  The Stravinsky Rite of Spring Chord: Eb7/Fb Major. &nbsp;Artful storytelling indeed. &nbsp;I’m a music theory teacher and I’ll certainly show this to my class at some point. &nbsp;I love that you utilized the interdisciplinary approach of Bernstein’s ‘73 Norton Lectures at Harvard. &nbsp;Those are still the greatest music lecture series I’ve ever encountered, despite the 23 years since they first broke my brain as an undergraduate. &nbsp;His approach of applying Chomsky’s linguistics framework to understand musical grammar is inspired thinking. &nbsp;An incredible demonstration of an immense intellect. &nbsp;Highly recommend those lectures to any serious musician.

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  @ernestitoe · 4 months ago

  Most people seem to use the term &quot;classical&quot; to mean anything played by an orchestra. I use the term &quot;orchestral.&quot; Frank Zappa wrote orchestral music that wasn&apos;t anywhere near classical.

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• JA

  @jamesmitchell6925 · 4 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCOZ2TSeJv8&amp;t=149">2:29</a> I laughed when you showed that image of Beethoven

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  @ThomasGanterPrien · 4 months ago

  Leonard Bernstein famously described the opening chord of Richard Wagner&apos;s Tristan und Isolde as the pivotal moment that revolutionized music, acting as the gateway from traditional tonal harmony to the chromaticism and eventual atonality of the 20th century.<br><br>There is no Stravinsky without Wagner. <br><br>And the resolution of the Tristan chord is not postponed indefinitely, only for about four and a half hours.

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