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madaxeman (Scottish west coast) | | Posted: Nov 11, 2007 - 15:29 | |
I was thinking of this tune the other day, but it was the "pop" version by Waldo De Los Rios which was a substantial hit in the UK when I was a kid. Spooky.
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dionysius (The People's Republic of Austin) | | Posted: Nov 11, 2007 - 15:27 | |
wferrier wrote:
In Mozarts time musicians were considered craftsmen and expected to work with set musical phrases. Thats how it was donethe same was true of all his contemporaries and immediate predecessors. This is the actual definition of the classical era in music! This fact is well known. Mozart isnt respected for originality, he is known for taking those phrases and mixing and matching them in such a way that surpassed everyone before him, and many after. Mozart was compiling better music at 20 than Haydn was at 40. Again well known fact. Mixing and matching modular phrases is still done, in all styles of music, even today, country, rock, jazz, blues, and everything else just about. Listen to symphony 21 in C. The beginning is a dumpy little tune, one of those simple melodies that as a kid Mozart was expected to improvise on. Now listen to the entire symphony keeping that it is variations on the dumpy tune. Its extraordinarythats the genius of Mozart.
 Perfect summation. |
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rklein (East Bay) | | Posted: Nov 11, 2007 - 15:27 | |
prefect segue from Vlatko and Miroslav
and a 10 be itself
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dres
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jenakle wrote:
OMG YES
what is it caaalllled?!??!!?
Its called Outnumbered! Damn I used to play that game all the time. You are in this television station and go in and out of rooms looking for the Master of Mischief's hideout. When you are in the hallway this music plays and there is this robot that you have to zap with a gun. Now whenever I hear Mozart's Symphony no 40, that is what I think about. |
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wferrier (Johnson City, New York) | | Posted: Oct 11, 2007 - 09:03 | |
ktnsb wrote:There used to be a game you could buy in any well-stocked sheet music store, I forget the name of it but it was about Mozart. The way it worked was you rolled a pair of dice, and a particular musical phrase was associated with different dice combinations. You won the game by writing a longer Mozart composition, or something like that. The point was that just by rolling dice you were putting together actual Mozart compositions, like a theme from this symphony or that horn concerto.
Could you do that with any other composer? Certainly not with just two dice. Mozart was all formula, hardly any inspiration. People like his nice melodies and feel like it's uplifting and all, which is great, but the reality is that hideglue down there is right: he was very prolific, but if you want originality in that time period look to Haydn. Just my opinion, obviously.
In Mozarts time musicians were considered craftsmen and expected to work with set musical phrases. Thats how it was donethe same was true of all his contemporaries and immediate predecessors. This is the actual definition of the classical era in music! This fact is well known. Mozart isnt respected for originality, he is known for taking those phrases and mixing and matching them in such a way that surpassed everyone before him, and many after. Mozart was compiling better music at 20 than Haydn was at 40. Again well known fact. Mixing and matching modular phrases is still done, in all styles of music, even today, country, rock, jazz, blues, and everything else just about. Listen to piano concerto 21 in C. The beginning is a dumpy little tune, one of those simple melodies that as a kid Mozart was expected to improvise on. Now listen to the entire concerto keeping that it is variations on the dumpy tune. Its extraordinarythats the genius of Mozart. |
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EssexTex (MAGNOLIA CAFE DAY!) | | Posted: Oct 11, 2007 - 05:35 | |
Stunning....I salute you Bill
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pushkinjim (Sweden) | | Posted: Oct 11, 2007 - 05:35 | |
Nice pick - just heard this at a concert this past weekend - a nice reminder of an interesting mix between a jazz group with a symphony orchestra that was outstanding.
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prickelpit96 (Hannover, Germany) | | Posted: Oct 11, 2007 - 05:29 | |
mgkiwi wrote:Only on RP - diversity - excellent!
Alors. C'est vrais! |
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mgkiwi (French Alps) | | Posted: Oct 11, 2007 - 05:26 | |
Only on RP - diversity - excellent!
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prickelpit96 (Hannover, Germany) | | Posted: Oct 11, 2007 - 05:24 | |
Unereichbares hat der kleine Wolfgang Amadeus seinerzeit gezaubert. |
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thekid (St. Louis, Misery) | | Posted: Sep 09, 2007 - 19:05 | |
jadewahoo wrote:Gawd! I can't stand classical music. It may be time to leave RP, as there has been wa-a-a-y-y too much of it being played as of late.
If you're THAT sensitive, I'm surprised that you even listen to RP. You might be missed.
I too am not a huge 'classical' fan but this just rocks! It's conventions are way different but the innovation and passion of this work were likely just as innovative as we might attribute to our favorite songs here. |
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Hedwig (Somewhere between Portland, OR and NYC) | | Posted: Sep 09, 2007 - 19:02 | |
i gotta say: i am really feeling this
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narainmg (Fremont, CA) | | Posted: Sep 09, 2007 - 19:01 | |
ulibcn wrote:Only a highly gifted DJ is able to fit Mozart into a program like this.
Bill, you are the Mozart of Internet Radio!
I was just wondering what Bill will segue into right after this... it would be interesting to see. |
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Hedwig (Somewhere between Portland, OR and NYC) | | Posted: Sep 09, 2007 - 18:58 | |
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veegez (Minnesoter) | | Posted: Aug 09, 2007 - 12:12 | |
ktnsb wrote: Mozart was all formula, hardly any inspiration. People like his nice melodies and feel like it's uplifting and all, which is great, but the reality is that hideglue down there is right: he was very prolific, but if you want originality in that time period look to Haydn. Just my opinion, obviously.
And a laughable one at that. Reminds me of this scene from Manhattan where Diane Keaton and Michael Murphy cut down some intellectual greats in order to sound super sophisticated:
Yale(Michael Murphy): (to Mary) "Gustav Mahler? Hmmm, I think he may be a candidate for the old Academy... " (to Isaac) "...Oh, we've invented the Academy of the Overrated - for such notables as Gustav Mahler..."
Mary(Diane Keaton): "And Isak Dinesen, Karl Jung."
Yale: "F. Scott Fitzgerald..."
Mary: "Lenny Bruce! We can't forget Lenny Bruce now, can we? And how about Norman Mailer?"
Isaac(Woody Allen): (disgusted) "I think those people are all terrific, every one that you've mentioned. What about Mozart? You guys don't want to leave him out. I mean, while you're trashing people..."
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cmrump (Flatland) | | Posted: Aug 09, 2007 - 10:29 | |
ktnsb wrote:There used to be a game you could buy in any well-stocked sheet music store, I forget the name of it but it was about Mozart. The way it worked was you rolled a pair of dice, and a particular musical phrase was associated with different dice combinations. You won the game by writing a longer Mozart composition, or something like that. The point was that just by rolling dice you were putting together actual Mozart compositions, like a theme from this symphony or that horn concerto.
Could you do that with any other composer? Certainly not with just two dice. Mozart was all formula, hardly any inspiration.
This would be cool to code up and put on-line! I'd listen |
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electronicthroat (South Carolina) | | Posted: Aug 09, 2007 - 08:48 | |
jadewahoo wrote:Gawd! I can't stand classical music. It may be time to leave RP, as there has been wa-a-a-y-y too much of it being played as of late.
Please do, if you mind and ears are not open to different styles of music. |
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mrcookieface (KCMO) | | Posted: Aug 09, 2007 - 08:48 | |
Bill is playing gorgeous music this morning. Thanks for that!
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ktnsb (Kinsey's Colgate) | | Posted: Jul 08, 2007 - 22:40 | |
There used to be a game you could buy in any well-stocked sheet music store, I forget the name of it but it was about Mozart. The way it worked was you rolled a pair of dice, and a particular musical phrase was associated with different dice combinations. You won the game by writing a longer Mozart composition, or something like that. The point was that just by rolling dice you were putting together actual Mozart compositions, like a theme from this symphony or that horn concerto.
Could you do that with any other composer? Certainly not with just two dice. Mozart was all formula, hardly any inspiration. People like his nice melodies and feel like it's uplifting and all, which is great, but the reality is that hideglue down there is right: he was very prolific, but if you want originality in that time period look to Haydn. Just my opinion, obviously.
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jadewahoo (...somewhere in the Canyons of Time) | | Posted: Jul 08, 2007 - 20:07 | |
Gawd! I can't stand classical music. It may be time to leave RP, as there has been wa-a-a-y-y too much of it being played as of late.
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secretsauce
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Shesdifferent (Just visiting this planet) | | Posted: Jul 08, 2007 - 20:04 | |
I'm quite enjoying this...and the timing for it right now is perfect!
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jenakle (Tallahassee, FL) | | Posted: Jun 07, 2007 - 12:10 | |
gabbadar wrote:
The one with the robots, and an evil doctor? I played that one, and I was thinking the same thing! DOS on my 286DX16 with 4 megs RAM.
OMG YES
what is it caaalllled?!??!!?
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jenakle (Tallahassee, FL) | | Posted: Jun 07, 2007 - 12:09 | |
themotion wrote:
Ozark Trail all the way.
may age me, but I remember our elem schools first computers having that
green on black baby
carmen sandiego series were cool, so was the show
the original sims city where you built a town and could set natural (or un- ...godzilla!) disasters on it
the one bugging me was math/problem solving..robots, evil scientist chase...laser beams (but no sharks)
man, this is really gonna bug me...THIS music is the background if that helps anyone ???
*oh well* |
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jojopodo
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Beautiful. Simply Beautiful. |
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Pyro
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ChardRemains wrote: He's not, and he has a point. Much of Mozart's work was considered the "Sugar Sugar" of its day.
Izzat true? Hmmmm. Thanks for the info. |
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themotion (forgetting what has never been) | | Posted: Jun 07, 2007 - 11:55 | |
electronicthroat wrote:
I miss PC games from the 90's.
Ozark Trail all the way. |
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Kristi (Athens, GA) | | Posted: Jun 07, 2007 - 11:55 | |
Ahhh thank you so much, Bill!
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BLADERUNNER (Wilmington,NC) | | Posted: Jun 07, 2007 - 11:55 | |
AHHHHHHHHHHH
Mozart!!
thank you Bill
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