It's not my habit on here to share many works by my peers on Young Composers Music Forum, but this work I felt deserved a little plug. The work is by Justin Tokke.
Piano Sonata No. 1: Movs. 2, 3
The work is a wonderful compendium of various styles BUT it doesn't quite show upon first listening, which I find to be a wonderful thing that draws me into a work. The playfulness of the 3rd movement got stuck in my head while waiting for World Religions today.
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Thursday, March 24, 2011
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Extremely busy... again!
School started a week ago and I have been EXTREMELY busy this semester. I haven't posted a post here in almost a month - largely due to going to Indianapolis to see family during the Christmas holiday and school starting up last week. Haven't really had much time to do composition sadly. I partook in a wonderful discussion on Young Composers Music Forum regarding the organization of the various 'periods' of music in a timeline. Fascinating hearing how younger composers and musicians feel on this topic. I never really had a problem with the common timeline (Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, etc.) I always felt that grouping composers in any manner is difficult due to overlaps existent in each epoch. Certainly, there are some rather Classical moments in Handel and some rather Baroque moments in Beethoven. Bach, and his sons, at times had rather Romantic moments as well! Beethoven's Grosses Fugue, to use a unique example, is strikingly modern in content and scope - truly a work centuries before it's time! Ah, thank God I'm not a musical historian. :P
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