Post your favorite over 100 year old song.

Odradek · 2012-09-02 21:57:13

Tre · 2012-09-02 22:00:44

Imipolex G · 2012-09-02 22:04:26

Unknown · 2012-09-02 22:11:35

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Sredni Vashtar · 2012-09-02 22:39:43

Because everyone needs more dead children (and/or Gustav Mahler) in their lives.

Obā-san · 2012-09-02 22:44:17

Technically it's only 99 years old, but CLOSE ENOUGH.

Sredni Vashtar · 2012-09-02 23:16:40

^ Indeed!

sunn wolf · 2012-09-04 10:14:58

owns

Sredni Vashtar · 2012-09-04 11:42:21

The High Middle Ages and Renaissance produced some really spectacular music.

Speaking of which, here's something really curious:

Obā-san · 2012-09-04 12:00:45

The High Middle Ages and Renaissance produced some really spectacular music.

Unknown · 2012-09-04 18:19:13

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Ace Rimmer · 2012-09-05 18:03:12

Sredni Vashtar · 2012-09-05 22:26:28

^^ Thank you! Microtonality is an area of great interest for me, and there is a particular fascination for me in listening to such early music using such unconventional methods, at least in Western musical terms. The late Mediaeval/earlyRenaissance was particularly interesting, as it served as the period of transition between the post-Roman orthodoxy of Pythagorean tuning and the strict, simple harmony associated with it and the rise of new innovations like meantone temperments, wild polyphony and full-fledged chromaticism. The Costeley piece is an excellent example of all three of the latter.

Shame that the Baroque period had to come along and make everything super-simple and formal. Way to kill the fun, Monteverdi.

sunn wolf · 2012-09-06 09:00:28

people way should have just gone in crazier directions from the ars nova and ars subtilior, both of those styles were totally kickass

Sredni Vashtar · 2012-09-06 19:51:27

Indeed. That entire period was just a fountain of brilliant and strange ideas. The harmonies and intersecting rhythms in ars subtilior are insane, really gorgeous yet also so alien and unpredictable.

Tachyon · 2012-09-09 20:26:45

Justice4243 · 2012-09-30 02:11:18

Post your favorite over 100 year old song.

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