Music without chords

[arkiv]

Let´s provide some recommendations of links of world and classical music without chords -set of three or more different notes that sound simultaneously-.

[Dax]

How much Gregorian chant do you want?

[arkiv]

How much Gregorian chant do you want?

Welcome to gregorian chant, it is very interesting while studying or painting the house...


Jim McGillivray - bagpipe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22obRTqXeTY

"Rock" (Richard Kashanski)
Trent Shuey - timpani
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2ObigqMV1U

[aquablob]

Bach 2-part Inventions?

[sul G]

How's about some classical Japanese shakuhachi music? Wonderful and intense stuff.I recommend Katsuya Yokoyama on Ocora.

Bach 2-part Inventions?

'fraid not...   

[aquablob]

'fraid not...   

Yeah, but you could totally get away with just playing a dyad at the end there...

Actually, that F really wants to resolve down to an E.

[bwv 1080]

 There is India

http://www.youtube.com/v/VF-2s2m7KfI

[arkiv]

Ganesh Kumar - kanjira

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPPBoei6oCs

check the speed at 3:14

[imperfection]

Let´s provide some recommendations of links of world and classical music without chords -set of three or more different notes that sound simultaneously-.

Actually, 2 notes qualify as a chord.

[aquablob]

Actually, 2 notes qualify as a chord.

Depends on one's definition; some (the OP, most relevantly) would not consider a dyad a chord!

[Ten thumbs]

If you really want some fun, try Fanny Mendelssohn's Toccata in C min (einstimmig) of 1824. The alternation of right and left hand is quite fiendish.

[sul G]

Of course, from the centre of the classical canon there are the famous Chopin examples - last movement of the B flat minor sonata, and the E flat minor Prelude. These are in octaves throughout - I suppose that counts.

[aquablob]

Of course, from the centre of the classical canon there are the famous Chopin examples - last movement of the B flat minor sonata, and the E flat minor Prelude. These are in octaves throughout - I suppose that counts.

Yes, and they are wonderful!

[Cato]

One of the greatest and most expressive melodies ever composed is not accompanied with chords of any kind:






http://www.tapsbugler.com/24NotesExcerpt/Page1.html

[karlhenning]

Cato's example raises a point which (perhaps) someone has already remarked on.  The tune is not accompanied by chords, but it outlines a major triad (chord by implication).

Maybe we want someting more on the lines of my Studies in Impermanence 

(That transcription is a bit funky-looking, Cato: apart from all the grace-notage, it looks misoriented on the staff, outlining a D Minor triad . . . which isn't the bugle-call I know . . . .)

[aquablob]

(That transcription is a bit funky-looking, Cato: apart from all the grace-notage, it looks misoriented on the staff, outlining a D Minor triad . . . which isn't the bugle-call I know . . . .)

For a transposed instrument, perhaps?

[karlhenning]

For a transposed instrument, perhaps?

Well, but without accidentals (the F# in particular) it's still a minor triad, which just isn't right.

[karlhenning]

Yeah, but you could totally get away with just playing a dyad at the end there...

Actually, that F really wants to resolve down to an E.

Yes, for (even though the texture is two melodic lines) there are implied harmonies.

[Cato]

I did not look at the Taps music carefully enough!  Yes, the original according to the website I posted should end on C.


Let's try this!

[karlhenning]

Much better! Emmet Bondurant's 'arrangement' is Dodgy in the Extreme.