Let´s provide some recommendations of links of world and classical music without chords -set of three or more different notes that sound simultaneously-.
How much Gregorian chant do you want?
Quote from: Dax on February 08, 2009, 06:47:15 AM
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
Bach 2-part Inventions?
How's about some classical Japanese shakuhachi music? Wonderful and intense stuff.I recommend Katsuya Yokoyama on Ocora.
Quote from: aquariuswb on February 08, 2009, 08:46:34 AM
Bach 2-part Inventions?
'fraid not... :)
Quote from: sul G on February 08, 2009, 03:51:07 PM
'fraid not... :)
Yeah, but you could totally get away with just playing a dyad at the end there... :D
Actually, that F really wants to resolve down to an E.
There is India
http://www.youtube.com/v/VF-2s2m7KfI
Ganesh Kumar - kanjira
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPPBoei6oCs
check the speed at 3:14
Quote from: epicous on February 08, 2009, 06:42:18 AM
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.
Quote from: imperfection on February 08, 2009, 10:00:31 PM
Actually, 2 notes qualify as a chord.
Depends on one's definition; some (the OP, most relevantly) would not consider a dyad a chord!
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.
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.
Quote from: sul G on February 10, 2009, 06:51:41 AM
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!
One of the greatest and most expressive melodies ever composed is not accompanied with chords of any kind:
(http://home.sprintmail.com/~ejb/Taps.gif)
http://www.tapsbugler.com/24NotesExcerpt/Page1.html
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 8)
(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 . . . .)
Quote from: karlhenning on February 10, 2009, 11:56:51 AM
(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?
Quote from: aquariuswb on February 10, 2009, 12:06:40 PM
For a transposed instrument, perhaps?
Well, but without accidentals (the F# in particular) it's still a minor triad, which just isn't right.
Quote from: aquariuswb on February 08, 2009, 05:15:20 PM
Yeah, but you could totally get away with just playing a dyad at the end there... :D
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.
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!
(http://www.tapsbugler.com/24NotesExcerptphotos/15.-24Notes.jpg)
Much better! Emmet Bondurant's 'arrangement' is Dodgy in the Extreme.
Quote from: karlhenning on February 10, 2009, 12:53:06 PM
Much better! Emmet Bondurant's 'arrangement' is Dodgy in the Extreme.
Must be a Yale man! :o
I did wonder quickly about those grace(less) notes, but was in too much of a hurry: tutoring on-line!
Quote from: karlhenning on February 10, 2009, 12:09:11 PM
Yes, for (even though the texture is two melodic lines) there are implied harmonies.
No doubt; this is not a particularly "inventive" (pun intended) example of such subtleties, but Bach's music is just full of them, isn't it?
Los Muñequitos de Matanzas, from Cuba, performing a rumba:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGXmu-o-cr8
Quote from: Cato on February 10, 2009, 11:52:09 AM
One of the greatest and most expressive melodies ever composed is not accompanied with chords of any kind:
(http://home.sprintmail.com/~ejb/Taps.gif)
http://www.tapsbugler.com/24NotesExcerpt/Page1.html
The pibroch version?
Quote from: Dax on February 15, 2009, 01:44:22 AM
The pibroch version?
Had it not been for Jethro Tull, that were the first time I saw the word 8)
how's 'bout kechak? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HL5P6wlQPU)
Allan
There are drones to be sure, but it's worth checking out Lycergos Angelopoulos (Byzantine Chant)
http://www.fireangel.biz/v-Choir+Byzantion+with+Lycurgos+Angelopoulos+Jaroslaw-8wNcZf6
Mexican jarocho
http://www.youtube.com/v/2QM7SJhzmPE
Armenian clarinet traditional music
http://www.youtube.com/v/BT1-CfHWZTY