Oscar South Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 I'm currently in the early stages of posting a series of articles through my music blog on the process of analysis of the Debussy piece 'Arabesque No. 1'. I'm looking very specifically at the in depth functionality of the music through a variety of analytic methods. If anyone feels they would be interested in reading this, please follow the link below! [url]http://melodictraditions.wordpress.com[/url] Thanks, and all the best! Oscar Ps, If anyone is interested in reading anything in a certain direction or from a specific viewpoint on this topic (or even anything somewhat related), please let me know, and I'll post it up as part of the series! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dood Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Cheers Oscar, I've got the page open ready and will have a good read later hopefully! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowender Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Great stuff Oscar, and thanks for this. Garry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_5 Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Cool. Will have a look when I've got proper internet access. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xilddx Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 I'll certainly have a read and see if I can understand any of it Looks like a hell of an undertaking! Much respect! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Sausage Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 I used to be well into all this. I did Contemporary Classical (for want of a better word) as part of my degree. I'll always remember Debussy cos whilst our lecturer was explaining a certain passage in 'The girl with The flaxen hair' and a certain magical chord, a friend and i was discussing it too. She stopped the class and said " Mr Walker would you like to share you conversation with the rest of the class" So i said ok and explained how she was wrong about what a certain chord was and it's functionality. I forget what the chord was now but it was essentially stacked in fourths or something with a 7th at the bottom. My friend and i came from a jazz(ish) background a were complete theory nerds so had a better grasp of large chords, scales modes etc. To say she wasn't impressed is putting it lightly. She never asked me anything again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Sausage Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 He was alright old claude but i much prefered my mate Igor. Nearly everything i wrote at uni was about him. It was so aggresive and i loved how he'd write things in two keys at he same time to create a superkey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oscar South Posted August 8, 2013 Author Share Posted August 8, 2013 Thank you so much for the positive response! Big thanks to everyone who checked out the blog, I'm genuinely heart warmed to see an interest and appreciation of such a specific endeavor I remember trying to be a smart arse in music theory classes trying to correct the tutors analysis of Bach chorales.. I must have been such an annoying student! I'm also a big fan of Stravinsky, the idea of polytonality has always fascinated me. I had a brilliant chat with an incredible composer/arranger called Simon Niblock who told me about the idea of 'double diminished chords (or arranging melodic minor harmony in a way which accentuates two independent diminished triads) Anyway, I'm now typing up a new post which will expand on the previous one in a more 'analytic' manner. It'll be up in abut 30 mins! (after I get a bite to eat and finish the thing off ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoffbyrne Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 [quote name='Oscar South' timestamp='1375965943' post='2167985'] 'double diminished chords (or arranging melodic minor harmony in a way which accentuates two independent diminished triads) [/quote] Blimey!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!! G. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Lord Sausage Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 [quote name='Oscar South' timestamp='1375965943' post='2167985'] I remember trying to be a smart arse in music theory classes trying to correct the tutors analysis of Bach chorales.. I must have been such an annoying student! [/quote] I wasn't trying to be a smart arse........I was a smart arse! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Sausage Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 There's a great book on theory by Stravinsky's nemesis...Schoenberg. It's on the large side! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JapanAxe Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 *NERD ALERT* In para 19, I think you mean 'timbr[u]a[/u]l qualities'; 'timbral' is an adjective meaning 'of or pertaining to timbre', whereas a timbrel is a percussion instrument. */NERD ALERT* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oscar South Posted August 8, 2013 Author Share Posted August 8, 2013 Haha, yeah I saw these Schoenberg tomes in the university libraries! I read a book called 'conversations with Stravinsky' not too long ago which was fascinating. JapanAxe, thank you for your correction, much appreciated I actually type it right the first time and spellchecker told me it was wrong!! Haha So anyway.. much later than planned the new post is up. I went into real detail with this one and it turned into a proper Opus! Its also the most personally fascinating harmonic analysis I've ever carried out, and really ended up revealing some amazing 'universal musical truths', which music theorists and likely jazzers in particular are going to love!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oscar South Posted August 10, 2013 Author Share Posted August 10, 2013 (edited) New post.. 'vaguely' musical related http://melodictraditions.wordpress.com/ Edited August 10, 2013 by Oscar South Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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