Earle Brown's Music for Cello and Piano: Analysis

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7 жыл бұрын

Composer Samuel Andreyev analyzes Earle Brown's Music for Cello and Piano (1952)
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@antoniopibiri7329 Жыл бұрын

Great work of analysis!!!Thanks you for this!

@Racosz 5 жыл бұрын

Excellent analysis and KZfaq channel. Greetings from Bogotá, Colombia.

@ilabra13 7 жыл бұрын

really enjoy your stuff hope you keep doing these

@samuel_andreyev 7 жыл бұрын

Ivan Labra Thank you, Ivan. I'll be posting a new video very shortly.

@tomfurgas2844 7 жыл бұрын

Brilliant analysis of this seminal composition. It was highly informative and the comparison of the 4 recordings was very illuminating.

@samuel_andreyev 7 жыл бұрын

Tom Furgas So happy to hear it was useful for you.

@MastanehNazarian 6 жыл бұрын

When listening to Earl's influences from 20th century art in general and the preoccupation of most of his contemporaries in Europe with the Viennese school, it was good to remind myself of the painting work of Schoenberg that were exhibited here in Melbourne a few years ago.

@johnappleseed8369 7 жыл бұрын

Awesome, just starting it now! :)

@douglasreeder9145 2 жыл бұрын

Besides being an extreme genius composer, Earle was a very kind friendly, dow-to-earth individual. I had studied with him in the early 80s at Cincinnati CCM which was a great honor!

@Mitia_k 7 жыл бұрын

Hello there. I don't know anything about music, but Dr. Peterson often tweets about your videos, so I'm gonna try to educate myself with them. Thanks for doing this.

@samuel_andreyev 7 жыл бұрын

Hello, welcome & nice to hear from you. As a quick introduction, my videos usually have a general discussion of aesthetics and historical context in the 1st half, and in the 2nd part, I go into more analytical detail about a given piece. If something is too technical you can just skip over it. For the time being I'm focusing on modern and contemporary repertoire, but I will be making a Bach video soon. Hope you enjoy my channel!

@parsa.mostaghim 4 жыл бұрын

beautiful🐞 never heard his music before. always inrtested in composers inspired by visual arts

@manolitosanchez 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for taking the time to raise awareness on this composer. Indeed, it’s a pity that he’s just regarded as “one of those graphic scores guy”. Not that it would be a bad thing to be, but it’s inaccurate. Great channel!

@krismariasy9728 7 жыл бұрын

Hi Samuel! I love your channel. Will you ever analyze the music of Horatiu Radulescu?

@samuel_andreyev 7 жыл бұрын

I'm afraid I don't know it very well. I've only heard one or two pieces, but he's someone I plan on getting to know in greater depth. Thanks for your comment.

@EllieMcEla 7 жыл бұрын

When are you doing a Dutilleux analysis? This is awesome, by the way.

@samuel_andreyev 7 жыл бұрын

Ellie McEla thank you. I may do a video on Ainsi la nuit at some point.. new video on Ives coming very soon!

@MrInterestingthings 5 жыл бұрын

Again , thankyou . This guy sounds like Ives not too limited by musical heterodoxy or traditional aims . I knew nothing about him but see his name often . So good to have this . I can't believe there are not other visual documents online about contemporary music . Don't the major universities or the famous conservatories only keep their filmed , taped lectures in their own archives unaccessible to all outside that environment? I must find this Claude Ledoux and Jordan Peterson .

@JustinFriello 5 жыл бұрын

Not enough scholarship on Brown! Kudos for this!!!

@dariocaporuscio8701 8 ай бұрын

33:40 isn't the trio sonata originally 2 treble instruments+continuo? Bach wrote some pieces for treble instruments+cembalo obbligato where the right hand of the cembalo has the function of the second treble instrument but as I understood it, that was rather an exeption. Correct me if I am wrong and sorry for pointing out things from old videos

@MSchultheis 3 жыл бұрын

Great background and analysis of a composer that is indeed always spoken too less about compared to Cage or Feldman.

@saraondo2698 3 жыл бұрын

"Threnody for Frank Zappa" "She Dances in the wind" by Tony villodas Earl Brown is a favorite composer. I love the space the counterpoint . Cage and Feldman as well.

@johnappleseed8369 7 жыл бұрын

Very fascinating composer, I admit I'm not as familiar with him as Feldman or Cage. Do you know what kind of system Cage's number pieces use? I really enjoy them but I wonder how much indeterminacy there is in them. I own several Feldman scores, so I know that quite a lot of his work is conventionally notated.

@samuel_andreyev 7 жыл бұрын

I haven't had a close look at the Cage number pieces, but speaking generally, Cage was more preoccupied with the notion of compositional process than Brown was..

@Berliozboy 6 жыл бұрын

John Cage's number pieces utilize time brackets for each instrument. Each bracket will be a sound event. It provides a starting time for the event "e.g. begin the event between 10 seconds to a minute and a half into the piece" and ending time "e.g. end the event between 1 minute and 2 minutes into the piece" and includes typically 1 to a few number of pitches (notated with a cleff on a staff, typically as a whole note or a black head without a stem) to be played and sometimes a dynamic marking. Therefore each instrument can treat the event lengthily or as a short snippet of sound. that's the basic arrangement of the handful of scores I've studied. I thoroughly enjoy listening to performances of the number pieces as well. Hope this was helpful/informative.

@samuel_andreyev 2 жыл бұрын

I don't find that to be an unforgiveable transgression.

@thefrankonion 7 жыл бұрын

It would be interesting to do an analysis of John Cage's late number works, particularly the ones he wrote towards the end of his life, in 1991 and 1992. I knew John Cage at this period of his life, beginning in early 1989.

@samuel_andreyev 6 жыл бұрын

thefrankonion Sure. I'm not saying Brown invented the concept of spontaneity. He rather sought a means to integrate it into the world of notated music.

@drummersagainstitk 5 жыл бұрын

Love your channel. Do you see all post modernism composers as equals in musical stature? I hope you'd differentiate one day.

@samuel_andreyev 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comments. No, I don't see all modern composers as equal in stature. If I did, it would mean I had no critical sense or powers of discernment.

@drummersagainstitk 5 жыл бұрын

@@samuel_andreyev What I'm driving at is Webern, Feldman, Farleybrough might be presented in equal footing "stature" musically with Stravinsky, Bartok, VWilliams, Johannes and I'd hope you somewhat agree. There are many of us outside of classical circles that despise what happened to post modern classic music. If you see all of it as musically valid then please say so. If you don't, please differentiate in order for many younger musicians can gain your insights. In other words...Call the charlatans out!

@SteveCournane 3 жыл бұрын

Love your idea that chaos and order arrive at the same place!. Thanks for the video

@paxwallacejazz 6 жыл бұрын

Calder's mobiles are very musical to me.

@whycantiremainanonymous8091 6 жыл бұрын

On spontaneity in music: didn't one already have a spontaneous musical experience with jazz-brown's earliest practice as a musician.

@juliusseizure591 4 жыл бұрын

Well, in jazz the spontaneity is limited to changes or melodic improvisation derived from the head. You do get more experimental improvisation in the mid-60s, but not in 1952!

@arrowfitzgibbon7775 2 жыл бұрын

It seems I tend to unconsciously impose my own pseudo - tonal “organization” upon this work. The diversity of texture is quite remarkable, even as these once highly radical piano techniques have become more commonplace.