Name that piece! The game

[Scarpia]

Well, I can come up with one, but first I will have to figure out how to make a short clip.

[DavidW]

If anyone has problems using Audacity, I found another program that is slightly easier to use: mp3directcut.  You simply highlight the section you want and then go edit->crop followed by save complete audio, you can also edit the tags with another menu option.  I like audacity, but it's good to have choices.

http://mpesch3.de1.cc/mp3dc.html

[Cato]

Incredible, but there are good number of things about Valen available:

FaceBook!!!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fartein-Valen/55037663004

YouTube!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YeJa_TnB0M

And assorted curiosities:

http://www.haugesund-teater.no/fartein_valen_en.htm

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Thanks, Sarge, for the opportunity of listening to Fartein Valen. I have known his name ever since I read (in 1979) Paul Rapoport's book Opus Est, about six Northern European symphonists. Though Bernstein hated the adjective - interesting music.

[klingsor]

No, not Martin either.

Sarge

I need to be more careful. I was not really guessing Martin, since I know his music too well.

Glad to know it was Valen. He's a composer I have been curious about and this clip puts him high on my future listening list now

[Lethevich]

It's cool that this game is providing the prompting for people to check out things they knew about but had yet to hear. I like Valen's songs (on a Simax disc which used to go for almost nothing), but found this disc to be especially engaging and well-programmed:

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The first symphony is that really sweet type of atonality that basically sounds melodic - a little like Frankel. Despite being his first symphony, it's a rather late work, and feels as though it's in an already well-considered style. His language as I understand it from this disc is rather emotionally wide-ranging, and frequently beats with a warm heart through the prickly language.

I really must hear his later symphonies, now.

[DavidW]

Incredible, but there are good number of things about Valen available:

FaceBook!!!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fartein-Valen/55037663004

YouTube!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YeJa_TnB0M

And assorted curiosities:

http://www.haugesund-teater.no/fartein_valen_en.htm

Thanks for the youtube link Cato, I think I must buy some Valen in the future.

[DavidW]

It's cool that this game is providing the prompting for people to check out things they knew about but had yet to hear.

That was actually my motivation for the game!   I was inspired by my experience listening to the radio, it opens new options broadening my horizons when I hear music without names to activate my bias and hear things not in my collection.  That was how I discovered Waxman, Enescu and a few others.  I thought a game could achieve the same ends and also be fun at the same time.

[Lethevich]

Also, if nobody posts a clip soon I totally will - don't worry, no late Romantic stuff :3

[karlhenning]

Also, if nobody posts a clip soon I totally will - don't worry, no late Romantic stuff :3

I'm behind you, Sara. (Moral support.)

[Gurn Blanston]

David is going to post a clip I sent him last night. I don't have it here at work, nor any account info. It is my little contribution to y'all's sanity.

[DavidW]

Quiz.mp3 on behalf of Gurn.

[Opus106]

Quiz.mp3 on behalf of Gurn.

Gurn singing in his bathroom?

[Gurn Blanston]

Gurn singing in his bathroom?

Damn, I didn't think it would be so easy....   Nope.

[karlhenning]

Quiz.mp3 on behalf of Gurn.

Fun!

And it's nice to see this thread inspiring Gurn to git his atonal honking on! ; )

[mc ukrneal]

Damn, I didn't think it would be so easy....   Nope.

Yeah, no way. I'm sure you sing and play way better than this.

Just for the record, would be nice to vary it up. Not all of us like this...this....whatever it is!

[Gurn Blanston]

Yeah, no way. I'm sure you sing and play way better than this.

Just for the record, would be nice to vary it up. Not all of us like this...this....whatever it is!

Neal, you're breakin' my heart. You don't think I would let you down, do you? 

[karlhenning]

Lucchesi? . . .

[Gurn Blanston]

Lucchesi? . . .

Ummmm.... no.

[DavidW]

Lucchesi? . . .

I'm sure Newman's expanded theory has his writing for Schoenberg, Berg and Webern as well!