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Schoenbergs String Quartets, String trio, and String Sextet (Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night)

Listening to these works Im struck by the clarity, and passion of Schoenbergs compositions.

I post them, with scores, as I feel they are an invaluable study aid for really good string writing, and perhaps they might change some people's minds about t

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Alma Deutscher

Hey I wonder what you think of her Music and about her in general.

I am kind of fascinated and delighted. Can it be that the secret behind her are solely her parents and education or is she really some kind of exceptionally genius?

https://youtube.c

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Celebrating Black History Month

If you know one ragtime composer, it’s probably Scott Joplin, who wrote the Maple Life Rag, and whose music was popularized in the movie The Sting. But there were many ragtime composers, and many great works by them. James Scott was second in popular

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What I Learned from Grieg...

This is not super-novel, but if you are stuck compositionally, just take two measures (or four or more) and repeat them transposed at a different interval.  Grieg does this all the time in his Lyric Pieces!

Up or down a fourth/fifth if you want to be

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Mingus Changes

"Reincarnation of a Lovebird," in section B, the changes go like this:

B-9  Eb13  G#7(#9) C#+7 F#m(M7)   (The piece is in F#m)

The first change is very strange. 

To see this in black and white, transpose to Am and the B-9 to Eb13 becomes:

D-9 to Gb1

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Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt is a composer which, I feel, doesn't have the appreciation he deserves on this forum.

Thus, I wanted to start a discussion with other people, about Franz Liszts place in musical composition. 

He certainly was a genius, no denying that,

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What Piece Drives You to Tears?

Hey everyone,

So with the exception of a couple Billy Joel ballads, I've come to realize that the only music that can really make a grown man like myself tear up is a moving orchestral piece. The sad thing is that for me, most circumstances in life

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Karlheinz Stockhausen

For those interested in the works of Karlheinz Stockhausen, i cant recommend this site highly enough. The analyses of the Klavierstucke, solo piano works, for example I found particularly interesting and informative.

Stockhausen - Sounds in Space

A

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Darius Milhaud

French classical composers were enchanted with ragtime as a serious music long before Americans considered it to be a serious music. Debussy, for example, wrote a piece based on it. But the best one, IMO, was Darius Milhaud, who wrote 3 pieces based

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Holst's Japanese Suite

Found this on YouTube and was particularly impressed.  Maybe this piece is better known across the pond, but this Yank had never heard it before.  I am usually not a fan of *orientalism* but Holst was clearly inspired.  Lots of interesting stuff here

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Bach

I will be the first one to say that J.S. Bach is my favorite overall composer, Partita No.2, Chaccone is my favorite piece, but what specifically makes his music great, influential, and worth all the recognition? How would you explain this to a music

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Delia Derbyshire,neglected but not forgotten

I thought I'd mention the very influential British composer Delia Derbyshire who was a stalwart of the now defunct BBC Radiophonic Workshop,her most famous piece is the original arrangement of the original Doctor Who theme,which in my opinion has nev

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Please help me understand Beethoven (or counterpoint in general)

Hello Dear Forumers. :) Very happy to write my first post.

I'm an amateur and like to study works of classical masters to see how certain things are done and among other things I also try to grasp counterpoint theory and learn about species. Recentl

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Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland is one of my all time favorite composers for several reasons but the principle reason is that he, of all the 20th century composers, seems to me to have done the one thing that is most important: write a tonal, warm, lovely, and emotion

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ive been listening to a lot of ligeti latey.

ive been listening to a lot of ligeti the past few day.

what do you like/dislike about his work?

what kind of person was he?

what sets him apart from other composers?

i just want everyones opinions. thanks!

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Collection of your favorite unknown or lesser-known composers

Hello all,

I recently found this composer named Jan Linden on SoundCloud and am absolutely blown away by his piece named Pegasus.

It may not be very new or progressive but if you are into thoughtful but epic (late)romantic orchestra or (above average

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Did Chopin "Borrow" the main theme for his op69 no2 Waltz in B minor from Beethoven?

So I have been listening to a lot of Beethoven lately - the other night, I was listening through his Sonata 29 "Hammerklavier" and a very, VERY familiar melody started to emerge from the 2nd movement.

I immediately recognized it as strikingly similar

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Piano composers with unique styles

Based on the somewhat disconcerting realisation that I can't find my own style of composing solo piano - long strings of unresolved suspended chords and pure colour of passages of whole/long notes for ;colour blurs' - anywhere, I wondered which compo

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Need help with modern and simple piano score analysis

Hi everyone,

I have been studying jazz harmony but I usually have some problems in understanding how certain rules are applied in compositions. For example, I have written down a lot of common chord progressions in jazz music, but modern composers se

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The Art of String Quartets by Brian Ferneyhough

The Art of String Quartets by Brian Ferneyhough
http://interchangingidioms.blogspot.com/2008/08/art-of-string-quartets-by-brian.html

Ferneyhough - Adagissimo for String Quartet 1983 w/ score
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJplrXhj27M


Brian Ferneyhough -

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