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Passacaglia, Op. 1 (10:02)

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  • Diverman2010

    While I would definitely agree on this music having a surreal nature, what he is referring to is serialism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialism, key to the modern composition of music.

    30 Apr 12:31pm Reply

  • def3mno62

    Why does no one ever know how to spell "surrealism?"

    1 Sep 2012 Reply

  • wolf_of_perun

    Griminfis: Serialism is beautiful :D i think the "centers" appear accidentally, though, but still, beautiful :) I guess this pasacaglia is from his tonal works? Sounds like Romanticism :P

    29 Jan 2012 Reply

  • griminfis

    Oneiromaster said: "I wouldn't say this is completely serial. It doesn't sound random enough :)". I answer: serialism doesn't mean random, it is another way of order the sounds not depending of a tonal gravity center. It's a complex and mathematical musical system, an alternative to the old tonality. Serialism is beautiful for me!

    25 Jan 2012 Reply

  • prosbulle2

    la seule pièce tonale que Webern n'ai pas reniée. Les autres opus sont des bijoux sériels, souvent miniaturisés, toujours éclatants. Mais on entre dans un autre univers.

    20 Nov 2011 Reply

  • DionysosApollon

    http://www.lastfm.de/group/Second+Viennese+School check this group! and enjoy!

    15 Oct 2011 Reply

  • postman58

    Compelling yet lacks any uplifting interlude......

    3 Feb 2011 Reply

  • Oneiromaster

    I wouldn't say this is completely serial. It doesn't sound random enough :)

    24 Jun 2010 Reply

  • ysion

    "Mit seinem Klavierstück Mode de valeurs et d’intensités initiierte er 1949 die serielle Musik." zu lesen auf http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_Messiaen am 23.12.09 ;-)

    23 Dec 2009 Reply

  • SonicGojira

    how interesting ...the music almost seems to create a stark landscape

    15 Dec 2009 Reply

  • Elopotrom

    serialism isn´t dodecaphonie, which where invented by schönberg, webern was his student.

    19 Nov 2009 Reply

  • queshelia

    I dont think its shallow since it gives goose pimples. ;)

    14 Oct 2009 Reply

  • brentsmith500

    No time like the present. where is the music, emotion, heart, soul, sex? I don't know and neither does this bullcrap

    2 Oct 2009 Reply

  • LOVE8Bella

    Great!!! (^_^)

    14 Apr 2009 Reply

  • gakko

    I read somewhere that... You are kidding aren´t you nullpunkt? Or are you just trying to make a "nullpunkt"? --- I read somewhere that humans came to earth with a spaceship from Planet "Yrrk". And Alban Berg was a Beatles-fan etc. Come on! Don´t kid yourself!

    18 Mar 2009 Reply

  • nullpunkt

    Webern was certainly NOT a serialist, so that's clearly a wrong tag above. Serialism is a post WWII extension of the dodecaphonic composition technique, and Webern died in 1945. I've read somewhere that Messiaen "invented" serialism in his "études des modes et des valeurs", than it was taken over by Boulez and the whole crew at Darmstadt in the 50ies.

    12 Dec 2008 Reply

  • richardrw

    I find this quite sparse and bleak. It comes across firmly, but sadly.

    12 Sep 2008 Reply

  • forefathers

    énigmatique et ensorcelant...

    18 Aug 2008 Reply

  • mattinav

    I like it!

    4 Apr 2008 Reply
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