What classical piece is currently stuck in your head (if any)? For me, it's the Gavotte from Prokofiev's Classical Symphony. Someone please help me! :D
The first movement from Hartmann's Symphonische Hymnen right now! Ughhh....!!!
Quote from: kyjo on August 06, 2013, 04:27:25 PM
What classical piece is currently stuck in your head (if any)? For me, it's the Gavotte from Prokofiev's Classical Symphony. Someone please help me! :D
No, my friend. Soak it in, let that Gavotte take control. 8)
Quote from: Mirror Image on August 06, 2013, 04:29:05 PM
The first movement from Hartmann's Symphonische Hymnen right now! Ughhh....!!!
I haven't heard that work for a long time, probably because it's not included in that magnificent Wergo set, which I revisit with regularity. I'll have to break out that Orfeo disc which contains the only recording of the
Symphonische Hymnen as well as the Piano Concerto and
Concerto funebre. I recall it being a very strong work.
Quote from: kyjo on August 06, 2013, 04:34:09 PM
I haven't heard that work for a long time, probably because it's not included in that magnificent Wergo set, which I revisit with regularity. I'll have to break out that Orfeo disc which contains the only recording of the Symphonische Hymnen as well as the Piano Concerto and Concerto funebre. I recall it being a very strong work.
Outside of Hartmann's symphonic cycle, it's one of his best IMHO. I don't care much for the
Piano Concerto, but LOVE the
Concerto Funebre. Gorgeous work.
Have you heard his
Sinfonia Tragica? This is a fine work as well:
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Quote from: Mirror Image on August 06, 2013, 04:39:12 PM
Outside of Hartmann's symphonic cycle, it's one of his best IMHO. I don't care much for the Piano Concerto, but LOVE the Concerto Funebre. Gorgeous work.
Have you heard his Sinfonia Tragica? This is a fine work as well:
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I agree with you about the PC. A rather dry work that's not very personal or memorable. Yes, I have heard
Sinfonia Tragica, the first movement of which was reused in Symphony no. 3 (Hartmann had a habit of reusing and recycling a lot of his music). What do you think of the Viola Concerto (on the same disc as
Sinfonia Tragica)? I find a really unsettling work, sort of like a crazed mixture of Berg and Bartok.
Quote from: kyjo on August 06, 2013, 04:49:56 PM
I agree with you about the PC. A rather dry work that's not very personal or memorable. Yes, I have heard Sinfonia Tragica, the first movement of which was reused in Symphony no. 3 (Hartmann had a habit of reusing and recycling a lot of his music). What do you think of the Viola Concerto (on the same disc as Sinfonia Tragica)? I find a really unsettling work, sort of like a crazed mixture of Berg and Bartok.
Yes, I particularly loved the last movement of
Sinfonia Tragica. Some incredible orchestration and counterpoint happening in this movement. I don't think much of the
Viola Concerto. I tend to focus on Hartmann's symphonies more than anything, although, as I mentioned, I do love the
Concerto Funebre.
BUMP!!! :D
For obvious reasons the opening theme of Nielsen's clarinet concerto.
Why not just get rid of them with some anagrams or sudoku
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9950143/Get-that-tune-out-of-your-head-scientists-find-how-to-get-rid-of-earworms.html
The opening of the third movement of Sibelius's 'Four Legends for Orchestra'
Quote from: vandermolen on August 10, 2013, 10:20:18 AM
The opening of the third movement of Sibelius's 'Four Legends for Orchestra'
aka
Lemminkäinen Tuonelassa (or Lemminkäinen in Tuonela [in the Underworld].
Quote from: North Star on August 10, 2013, 10:33:44 AM
aka Lemminkäinen Tuonelassa (or Lemminkäinen in Tuonela [in the Underworld].
Thank you - yes, that's the one. It has a wonderfully atmospheric opening, especially in Thomas Jensen's Royal Danish SO recording.
Now: the secondary theme from the first movement of Schubert's Symphony no. 5.
I rarely get classical stuck in my head. Broadway, on the other hand, can stick like glue for weeks. I listened to the show Into the Woods (which I hadn't heard in ages) and I remembered only later why I stopped listening to it. I keep singing the bloody lyrics (which are terribly clever)!
Schubert's Fantasy in C, D.934. It's been in my head for about a week. :o
Quote from: mc ukrneal on August 10, 2013, 08:34:24 PM
I rarely get classical stuck in my head. Broadway, on the other hand, can stick like glue for weeks.
I'm the opposite, but rarely is any piece stuck in my head for over a week. ;)
Right now, I have had Brahms' Op. 116/1 in my head the past few days. (I recently listened to a CD of Brahms' Opp. 116-119.) Before that was Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazde, 3rd movement (my favorite of the four).
Not classical per se, but right now it's the opening theme from Batman (1960s TV series) - my daughter and I have been watching the first season on YouTube. Campy, cheesy, over-the-top, but somehow lots of fun!
I need to get a classical 'earworm' going - the end of Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto was probably my most recent one.
Guess what? Still the first movement of Nielsen's clarinet concerto!
Quote from: James on August 15, 2013, 01:04:29 PM
Stockhausen. All of it.
Seek immediate medical attention!
Sarge
Quote from: classicalgeek on August 15, 2013, 12:57:17 PM
I need to get a classical 'earworm' going - the end of Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto was probably my most recent one.
Oh, don't get me started on that ending of Rach 2! :D Oh, glorious, glorious..........
There is a beautiful passage in Dvorak's 6th that is stuck in my head today. 0:)
Second movement of Howard Hanson's Symphony No 4.
Got a new one this morning. Yesterday, heard Shostakovich's arrangement of eight British and American Folksongs (from a 2006 concert broadcast, with Peter Rose singing and Thomas Sanderling conducting.) The lovely first number from that set, 'Blow the Wind Southerly', has been in my head ever since.
Quote from: vandermolen on August 10, 2013, 10:20:18 AM
The opening of the third movement of Sibelius's 'Four Legends for Orchestra'
Mmmmm, gotta hear those again!
For me, right now it's Mahler 8, 1st movement.
Currently, I have Chavez's Sinfonia India stuck in my head. Aghhh!!!! The whole freakin' piece is one giant earworm! :D
Beethoven Sonata No.4 Op.7 since listening to Schiff's at lunchtime 0:)
Quote from: DavidW on August 09, 2013, 07:52:27 PM
For obvious reasons the opening theme of Nielsen's clarinet concerto.
I've been waiting for someone to ask "Why
for obvious reasons?" but no-one has. So I will.
And for me it's most of
The Midsummer Marriage since the Proms performance last week. No space for Nielsen's gritty masterpiece at the moment in the midst of all this luxuriance.
DF
Quote from: DaveF on August 22, 2013, 07:22:42 AM
I've been waiting for someone to ask "Why for obvious reasons?" but no-one has. So I will.
Because as I posted in other threads I listened to it several times in the course of a few days. :)
And when you're living with that wonderful clarinet concerto, how can you not be haunted by the bumptious ascending major fifth?
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on August 22, 2013, 07:33:54 AM
... that wonderful clarinet concerto...
I've just come across this: http://www.woodwind.org/clarinet/Study/Nielsen.html (http://www.woodwind.org/clarinet/Study/Nielsen.html), which has got some fascinating stuff in it.
Now: the main theme of Liszt's Tasso. Lamento e trionfo. That moment when the cellos come in with the theme in 3/4 time is pure magic! :)
Mendelssohn's Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor
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I'm surprised that there isn't a thread about this (at least, not one that I saw). An annex to the "What are you listening to now?" thread
Right now, Debussy's "La Mer". First movement -- that Japanese-sounding pentatonic theme played by woodwinds. Probably the most frequent piece to get stuck in my head. At least I like it :D.
Three Little Indians, because that's what Kimi keeps playing on the piano!
Mah Na, Mah Na 8)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj5sbiW0I2I (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj5sbiW0I2I)
Oh but there is!
http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,22074.0.html (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,22074.0.html)
Beethoven and Wagner are fighting for supremacy. A tune for Die Walkure starts and Beethoven lunges in and takes over. :)
Someone renamed it, but mine was earlier still:
http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,19519.0.html (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,19519.0.html)
Thread duty: July July by the Decemberists.
This comes back every so often, like hiccups, or a rash
https://www.youtube.com/v/tenjvgh8fOk
Quote from: amw on April 08, 2014, 02:23:29 AM
This comes back every so often, like hiccups, or a rash
https://www.youtube.com/v/tenjvgh8fOk
Oh boy, that's an easy one to get stuck in your head. Right up there with the opening theme (piccolo solo) from Ravel's G major piano concerto. For me, that's the "rash" (as much as I love the piece, and that Basque melody).
Quote from: Pat B on April 07, 2014, 07:27:32 AM
Oh but there is!
http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,22074.0.html (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,22074.0.html)
Go figure :-[ . Well, I'm new to the whole forum thing (not just GMG, but any online forum) and from what I can gather, resurrecting threads over a year old seems to be like some sort of social faux-pas. Then again, starting new (redundant) ones seems to be disorganized...
And thanks, amw, now the Poulenc is stuck in
my head!
A brain.
Pretty sure it's a brain, anyway.
A fork.
Quote from: EigenUser on April 08, 2014, 04:22:47 AM
And thanks, amw, now the Poulenc is stuck in my head!
I knew I should have put a trigger warning on that :-/
Online forums are an odd bunch; in some of them 'necroposting' can get you banned, in others it's encouraged rather than having dozens of threads on the same topic. GMG tends towards the latter somewhat—being a rather
inactive forum, with very few threads accumulating over a thousand posts—but has sufficiently lenient moderation that either approach is acceptable, more or less.
Quote from: amw on April 08, 2014, 05:15:45 AM
Online forums are an odd bunch; in some of them 'necroposting' can get you banned, in others it's encouraged rather than having dozens of threads on the same topic. GMG tends towards the latter somewhat—being a rather inactive forum, with very few threads accumulating over a thousand posts—but has sufficiently lenient moderation that either approach is acceptable, more or less.
And I'm sure off-topic discussion aren't tolerated as much somewhere else, but then again, surely nobody at GMG would ever go OT. 0:)
This is of those musical passages that always seems to be in the back of my head, ready to burst free :) :
http://www.youtube.com/v/o98I-qODJAM
Good thing I love this music, because if I didn't, it would have driven me mad by now :D
Quote from: EigenUser on April 08, 2014, 04:22:47 AM
Go figure :-[ . Well, I'm new to the whole forum thing (not just GMG, but any online forum) and from what I can gather, resurrecting threads over a year old seems to be like some sort of social faux-pas. Then again, starting new (redundant) ones seems to be disorganized...
Resurrecting old threads is not frowned on here. Most of us enjoy being reminded of past discussions, and updating them. But starting new ones on the same topic won't get you punished either. We all know GMG's search engine is less than ideal. The mods understand when a topic is started because an old version can't be found or confirmed. Life is simple here. It's hard to get into trouble 8)
Sarge
Currently stuck in my head: Genesis' Dance On A Volcano. 8)
Nothing at the moment, but it's usually something (intentional small "s") by the Beatles. I've been listening to little else for about a month now.
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Last movement, Sibelius 5.
Sarge
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on April 08, 2014, 07:37:38 AM
Last movement, Sibelius 5.
Sarge
A dammit. Contagion by mention! I am NOT reading this thread anymore!
Lately it's been very frequently either the final 10 minutes of Roussel's Bacchus et Ariane or a Beatles song by Paul, particularly "Here, There, and Everywhere."
Currently, Yes' Heart Of The Sunrise from Fragile. Great stuff.
Today it is the minuet from Ravel's "Le Tombeau de Couperin". The rigadoun is also making occasional appearances.
The "Love is long" part of "Long Haired Lady" from Ram (I always thought "Love Is Long" was the title).
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Now, that damn alto flute solo at the beginning of Varese's "Ameriques"!
Quote from: EigenUser on April 11, 2014, 10:20:29 AM
Now, that damn alto flute solo at the beginning of Varese's "Ameriques"!
Thanks for mentioning it, now it's in my head too.. ::)
Today it looks like I'll be going around with the scherzo of Mahler 1 playing on repeat...
Quote from: EigenUser on April 11, 2014, 10:20:29 AM
Now, that damn alto flute solo at the beginning of Varese's "Ameriques"!
Oooooooh, brain worm of the loveliest kind! ;D
Stolen off Twitter:
(http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa159/Gurn_Blanston/CD%20Covers/Bolerocartoon_zps78f54bcb.jpg)
An earworm is just what it was... :o
8)
[audio]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/p5p38oih774wlfg/RavelLaValse-3.mp3[/audio].
Quote from: EigenUser on April 15, 2014, 04:53:58 AM
[audio]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/p5p38oih774wlfg/RavelLaValse-3.mp3[/audio].
Wonderful,
EigenUser, wonderful!
Quote from: EigenUser on April 15, 2014, 04:53:58 AM
[audio]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/p5p38oih774wlfg/RavelLaValse-3.mp3[/audio].
Great piece. :)
Quote from: EigenUser on April 15, 2014, 05:03:45 AM
Indeed! But IT'S STUCK IN MY HEAD!!! >:D
Listen to this, then ;)
https://www.youtube.com/v/L2DxxblM_Es
NO! >:(
Sorry, I'm a bit grouchy this morning :-\ . :-[ :blank:
Well, inevitably La Valse led to Boléro :D, but at least here one can admire Béjart's beautiful choreography of the piece (clever how they superimpose the solo part performed by a female--Elisabeth Ros from Spain--and a male--Argentine Octavio Stanley--dancer in this video)...
http://www.youtube.com/v/YpdFYhf3XZ8
Ohana's cello concerto "In Dark and Blue".
Quote from: EigenUser on April 15, 2014, 04:53:58 AM
[audio]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/p5p38oih774wlfg/RavelLaValse-3.mp3[/audio].
The part that always gets stuck in
my head is this one
[audio]http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32084883/04%20Ravel_%20La%20Valse.mp3[/audio]
Quote from: amw on April 16, 2014, 01:34:19 AM
The part that always gets stuck in my head is this one
[audio]http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32084883/04%20Ravel_%20La%20Valse.mp3[/audio]
I've had that part stuck in my head many times, too! This morning, (along with the Ohana) I also had the first three notes of John Adams' "Short Ride in a Fast Machine" stuck in my head (yes -- the woodblock :-\ ). I kept clicking my tongue three times and then imagined the beginning.
Vaughan Williams' "Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus".
Somes examples:
Last months:
Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 - first movement, especially the Coda
Sibelius: Symphony No. 7
Nielsen: Helios Overture
Brahms: German Requiem - Movement VI
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 - first movement
Frequently:
Brahms: Symphony No. 4 - Movements I and IV
Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - Development from Movement I
Dvorak: Symphony No. 7 - Development from Movement I
Bruckner: Incipit from Te Deum
Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 - I movement second theme
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 - Incipit from Movement IV
Schumann: Manfred Overture
to be continued if you want....
Joseph Schwantner's "Chasing Light..." for orchestra.
Beethoven's Coriolan Overture.
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on April 13, 2014, 05:19:45 PM
Stolen off Twitter:
(http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa159/Gurn_Blanston/CD%20Covers/Bolerocartoon_zps78f54bcb.jpg)
An earworm is just what it was... :o
8)
Funny. Bolero, a song from "The Wizard of Oz" and some Christmas carols frequently play in my head when I'm riding my motor-scooter (which I do for about 10 hours a week--it's my only transportation). It doesn't bother me, it's my only "radio" when I'm riding.
Right now, The Cinema Show from Genesis' Selling England By The Pound. 8)
I woke up with this melody stuck in my head this morning. It was so irritating because I couldn't figure out what it was, but I knew that I've heard it many times. I just realized that it is Antheil's 1st serenade for strings -- the violin solo halfway through the third movement.
At least you'er not humming back to yourself my passacaglia motto, eh? ;)
Many melodies come and go but the ones that seem permanently welded into the recesses of my neuronal network are from Sibelius' 2nd. No telling when they will pop-up but they do so regularly. And I don't mind.
I was out earlier playing tennis with a friend on this beautiful afternoon. We were talking about "Jeux" beforehand (the piece is from a ballet about tennis). From then on, I had the piece stuck in my head.
Quote from: EigenUser on May 24, 2014, 01:49:53 PM
I was out earlier playing tennis with a friend on this beautiful afternoon. We were talking about "Jeux" beforehand (the piece is from a ballet about tennis). From then on, I had the piece stuck in my head.
This helps
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Ligeti's Piano Concerto, 4th movement "Allegro Risoluto, Molto Ritmico" Gershwin's "Variations on 'I've Got Rhythm'"
That wonderful "creeping" slow motif in the second part of Beethoven's seventh.
Quote from: king ubu on May 28, 2014, 01:14:54 AM
That wonderful "creeping" slow motif in the second part of Beethoven's seventh.
Oh, nice! I can never tell if it is a stately ballroom dance or if it is a funeral march. Depends on the tempo.
Quote from: EigenUser on May 28, 2014, 04:37:00 AM
Oh, nice! I can never tell if it is a stately ballroom dance or if it is a funeral march. Depends on the tempo.
Indeed! And calling it an "Allegretto" must be some sick joke, I guess? When I saw the great polish film "Ida" a few weeks back (it has the "Jupiter" in the soundtrack, Coltrane as well, and some fun 60s sounds) it kinda crept into my head as if it had been part of the film (but it wasn't, as far as IMDB tells me, the credits ran too fast for me to catch all the info about the musical pieces used on the soundtrack).
EDIT: playing Vivaldi now, I guess I'll soon have some other melody haunting me ;)
Quote from: king ubu on May 28, 2014, 04:50:18 AM
Indeed! And calling it an "Allegretto" must be some sick joke, I guess? When I saw the great polish film "Ida" a few weeks back (it has the "Jupiter" in the soundtrack, Coltrane as well, and some fun 60s sounds) it kinda crept into my head as if it had been part of the film (but it wasn't, as far as IMDB tells me, the credits ran too fast for me to catch all the info about the musical pieces used on the soundtrack).
EDIT: playing Vivaldi now, I guess I'll soon have some other melody haunting me ;)
No, playing it slower than allegretto is a sick joke, but it kind of works that way, too, I guess.
Guess I've got some comparative listening to do there :)
Quote from: EigenUser on May 28, 2014, 04:37:00 AM
Oh, nice! I can never tell if it is a stately ballroom dance or if it is a funeral march. Depends on the tempo.
EigenUser has heard Beethoven's Seventh??
Pall-bearers executing a stately dance!
Quote from: Ken B on May 28, 2014, 06:58:02 AM
EigenUser has heard Beethoven's Seventh??
Ken, I've
performed Beethoven's 7th. I know it inside out. One of the few Beethoven works that I can say this about.
8)
Quote from: king ubu on May 28, 2014, 04:50:18 AM
Indeed! And calling it an "Allegretto" must be some sick joke, I guess?...
Lots of "slow" movements from classical symphonies are only "slow" by virtue of being placed between two faster ones. In B7, for instance, the Allegretto is surrounded by a Vivace and a Presto. In Beethoven's Eighth, the tempo relationships are even closer: Allegro con brio, Allegretto scherzando, Tempo di menuetto, Allegro vivace. ??? :)
"Old Man," from Love's Forever Changes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbzmX0BDpC4
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Quote from: North Star on May 28, 2014, 06:16:35 AM
No, playing it slower than allegretto is a sick joke, but it kind of works that way, too, I guess.
Quote from: jochanaan on May 28, 2014, 08:20:59 AM
Lots of "slow" movements from classical symphonies are only "slow" by virtue of being placed between two faster ones. In B7, for instance, the Allegretto is surrounded by a Vivace and a Presto. In Beethoven's Eighth, the tempo relationships are even closer: Allegro con brio, Allegretto scherzando, Tempo di menuetto, Allegro vivace. ??? :)
Okay ... dug out Gardiner (only HIP Beethoven cycle I've got here, I like it very much so wasn't yet checking for more - got plenty of "old" recordings that I like a lot, too, and Kleiber of course). Anyway, he does take it somewhat faster, but the magic's still all there, of course! But yeah, I guess I was somewhat off here, it actually IS faster than it felt for me anyways. I'm really not that much into what tempo IS but more into how it FEELS - I'm no conductor/scholar, so ;)
And now it will haunt me for another day, I'm sure!
This has been a particularly bad couple of days. I've had the 3rd movement of Schumann 4, Poulenc's "L'embarquement pour Cynthere" that amw posted earlier on this thread (my friend and I sightread it yesterday), the fast part of the slow 2nd movement of Haydn 79, and 1st movement of Shosty 9. I love these pieces, but it gets old after awhile. Especially the Poulenc.
It would be interesting to know if music in one's head is heard with the original instruments or how one hums it to oneself. I discovered recently that there are two ways of doing this after having to prepare a rather difficult piece for a concert.
In my free time I would imagine it from beginning to end and by now I do agree with Schnabel that one hears the piece slightly ahead of one's actual performance. When I am playing, even practicing, I have this track going on but if I have to identify the sound, it is usually how I would hum it.
Any thoughts?
ZB
I don't really know, to be honest. I think I usually hear the instruments, especially if the melody contains elements that are instrument-specific (i.e. string glissandos).
I also whistle quite a lot. I have been known to whistle while listening to my headphones :-[ . Even Ligeti. Don't ask me how -- I find a way.
I certainly hear the instruments & timbres too, if I hear something in my head.
Well, if I want to hear something specific like the Tschaikovky 1st Piano Concerto, I would turn it on in my head and hear the original instruments. But recently, I caught myself with pieces I play, sort of humming them in my mind but not hearing an actual piano sound.
I don't know if I am weird.
ZB
Quote from: zamyrabyrd on June 04, 2014, 11:55:46 PM
It would be interesting to know if music in one's head is heard with the original instruments or how one hums it to oneself. I discovered recently that there are two ways of doing this after having to prepare a rather difficult piece for a concert.
In my free time I would imagine it from beginning to end and by now I do agree with Schnabel that one hears the piece slightly ahead of one's actual performance. When I am playing, even practicing, I have this track going on but if I have to identify the sound, it is usually how I would hum it.
Any thoughts?
ZB
With me, it's always the instrumentation I'm familiar with. But not necessarily as any particular performance, more like an ideal performance of my own imagining. And I've found that after a big concert, the music I just played gets stuck in my head for days! ;D
I found this mental process can be compressed, for instance, speeding it up to twice the tempo but losing nothing in terms of real time. This became very useful to me in preparing pieces, imagining them away from the piano. Singing is more difficult. I don't know why.
Gyorgy Sandor said that during the WWII away from a piano, he kept up his musical repertoire by going through it in his mind.
Many years ago I read Arthur Rubinstein saying he can put a composition in his mind like placing an LP back on the turntable and could return to the same place he left off in case of an interruption.
This got me thinking about such a fascinating subject. After all, music really does happen in one's mind because we put linear sounds in a certain order.
ZB
Quote from: zamyrabyrd on June 05, 2014, 05:43:24 AM
Well, if I want to hear something specific like the Tschaikovky 1st Piano Concerto, I would turn it on in my head and hear the original instruments. But recently, I caught myself with pieces I play, sort of humming them in my mind but not hearing an actual piano sound.
With pieces I've learned, I often find myself hearing/feeling the hand movements necessary to execute them much more than the sound itself. I'm not actually moving my fingers (most of the time anyway) but my brain is rehearsing the signals it's going to give my fingers when the time comes for me to play it. If that makes sense.
I also like practicing on tables.
Ha, when I first started piano at the age of 8, I would play my pieces on the sink while my mother brushed my hair. This just came naturally to me but she probably thought I was abnormal.
ZB
I think most of us who have played piano have practiced on available surfaces. ;D
Quote from: jochanaan on June 08, 2014, 07:51:47 AM
I think most of us who have played piano have practiced on available surfaces. ;D
So have I and I don't play any instrument. :)
"The Windmills of Your Mind", which is actually "Les moulins de mon cœur", which again borrows the two opening lines from Mozart's Sinfonia concertante KV 364 ... guess Natalie Dessay and Michel Legrand are to blame, but of course at the heart of it is Mozart's catchy melody.
Does anyone ever get a melody stuck in their head, and halfway through the phrase it morphs into another melody? Yesterday I had the opening of Schumann's Rhenish morph into "Oh, My Darling" several times.
Messiaen's Trois Petites Liturgies de la Presence Divine, beginning of 3rd mvt.
Quote from: EigenUser on June 12, 2014, 07:01:44 AM
Does anyone ever get a melody stuck in their head, and halfway through the phrase it morphs into another melody?
Constantly! My musical reproduction equipment is so poor I only know a couple of bars of any given song. They're always merging into one another randomly--Beatles songs often end up as Christmas carols, for example.
Quote from: Baklavaboy on August 10, 2014, 07:05:27 AM
Constantly! My musical reproduction equipment is so poor I only know a couple of bars of any given song. They're always merging into one another randomly--Beatles songs often end up as Christmas carols, for example.
Haha :laugh:.
Recently I've had the adagio-finale of Mahler 9 morph into
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. One of the themes is vaguely reminiscent of the Christmas song, and then it just takes over. People who've heard both probably know what I mean.
Quote from: EigenUser on June 12, 2014, 07:01:44 AM
Does anyone ever get a melody stuck in their head, and halfway through the phrase it morphs into another melody?
All the time. Also, whenever my brain plays "La Marseillaise," it's on kazoos.
I'm very diligent about memorizing music. If you told me to start mentally playing back the Beethoven symphonies, I'd start with #1 right now and be finishing up #9 in a little over 5 hours. It's a gift I didn't realize other people did not have until I was an adult. Anyway, right now I'm trying to memorize Roussel's
Bacchus et Ariane and it's a challenge because certain sections begin in the same ways. The result is an infinite loop where I keep getting to the middle and my brain loops it back to near the start.
Quote from: EigenUser on June 12, 2014, 07:01:44 AM
Does anyone ever get a melody stuck in their head, and halfway through the phrase it morphs into another melody? Yesterday I had the opening of Schumann's Rhenish morph into "Oh, My Darling" several times.
I do this constantly. I will report back the next time it happens. It's such an unconscious thing, I don't remember any examples.
This morning I woke up singing some solo piano tune. I wasn't sure what it was (Beethoven? Schubert?), but I picked the right thing as soon as I sat down at my computer. It was Chopin's "Raindrop" prelude. And now I am listening to Claudio Arrau play it on the midprice Philips CD (red tray) I bought in the 1980s.
For the past week or so, the 3rd movement of Messiaen's Trois Petites Liturgies has been stuck in my head (the part that alternates between chanting and that schmaltzy melody).
Yes , that is a good one! Messiaen knew how to create a catchy tune.
But I recently bought a 2cd box "Hommage to harpsichordist Zuzana Ruzickova", and now Martinu's concerto flutters aroud in my head like butterflies caught in a jar....
I do like it though.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51iGCkLK6uL._SY300_.jpg)
Quote from: pjme on August 22, 2014, 01:26:45 AM
But I recently bought a 2cd box "Hommage to harpsichordist Zuzana Ruzickova", and now Martinu's concerto flutters aroud in my head like butterflies caught in a jar....
I do like it though.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51iGCkLK6uL._SY300_.jpg)
I should hear Martinu.
Quote from: pjme on August 22, 2014, 01:26:45 AM
Yes , that is a good one! Messiaen knew how to create a catchy tune.
Oh my god -- his melodies always get stuck in my head. Especially the 5th movement of the
Turangalila-Symphonie, the (similar) 10th movement of the
Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jesus (the one that sounds like a Mexican hat dance), the
TPL, the 3rd movement of
L'Ascencion, and even sections of
Oiseaux Exotiques!
Quote from: EigenUser on August 22, 2014, 03:39:37 AM
I should hear Martinu.
Yes. If you haven't heard any, try the
Nonet (no. 2),
Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano & Timpani,
Paraboles,
Lidice,
PC no. 4, the ballets,
the folk cantatas, and
Gilgamesh if you want something longer.
Quote from: Brian on August 10, 2014, 09:49:08 AM
All the time. Also, whenever my brain plays "La Marseillaise," it's on kazoos.
Oh. I really wish I hadn't read that ... ::)
Quote from: pjme on August 22, 2014, 01:26:45 AM
Yes , that is a good one! Messiaen knew how to create a catchy tune.
But I recently bought a 2cd box "Hommage to harpsichordist Zuzana Ruzickova", and now Martinu's concerto flutters aroud in my head like butterflies caught in a jar....
I do like it though.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51iGCkLK6uL._SY300_.jpg)
Composer Kalabis (mentioned on the jacket cover) was Ruzickova's husband, and a good composer at that. Check him out on Supraphon.
Since last week, the clarion voice and petulant yodeling of soprano Christina Deutekom circles above my head incessantly. I particularly fell for her rendering of Lipizzaner Kaizerin, a waltz by Carl Zeller.
The "March of the Pilgrims" from Berlioz's Harold in Italy. I don't mind cohabiting with them - they can stay as long as they like.
Quote from: ZauberdrachenNr.7 on August 24, 2014, 06:19:53 PM
The "March of the Pilgrims" from Berlioz's Harold in Italy. I don't mind cohabiting with them - they can stay as long as they like.
Sometimes when I see your posts I hear
Lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mists
In a land called Honalee ...
And now thanks to
Brian I am hearing it on kazoos.
Quote from: Ken B on August 24, 2014, 07:00:31 PM
Sometimes when I see your posts I hear
Lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mists
In a land called Honalee ...
And now thanks to Brian I am hearing it on kazoos.
I think that
that is not a bad thing, even on kazoos. I hear it often myself but
auf deutsch courtesy of Marlene Dietrich who, on occasion, can still provoke a tear. She had a world weariness about her and a sense of something past never to be regained that really worked with that song.
Currently, Messiaen's Trois Petites Liturgies, third movement, on kazoos.
Way to go, Brian. ::)
Quote from: EigenUser on August 25, 2014, 03:46:27 AM
Currently, Messiaen's Trois Petites Liturgies, third movement, on kazoos.
Way to go, Brian. ::)
Kyle Miller's Kazoo Concerto, but on violin.
Lyapunov Symphony No.1
"Kristen Schall is a Horse" : Something odd, vaguely troubling. First heard on Radiolab radio show, then found on Youtube, but the Youtube version is shortened and rather less frenetic and disturbing than that heard on Radiolab. Subject to interesting interpretation? Sophisticated anti-humor? Stupid? Nothing? I will be happy again when I have forgotten about this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvd6MBsiDBo
This morning I woke up with Nyman's Musique a Grande Vitesse (region 4) stuck in my head. And a sore ankle -- must have twisted it yesterday while running.
Quote from: EigenUser on September 04, 2014, 01:37:55 AM
This morning I woke up with Nyman's Musique a Grande Vitesse (region 4) stuck in my head. And a sore ankle -- must have twisted it yesterday while running.
To drive it out you need silence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZNzO272Zs0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZNzO272Zs0)
I've been going through a phase lately where I think that Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony No. 1 is one of the best things since sliced bread. THIS melody [audio]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/4n0aslumqfysmyg/SchoenbergCS1-1.mp3[/audio] has been stuck in my head for a few days now. Such a beautiful melody for the lower strings to have.
And I'm going to make this one [audio]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/g3xb48sib07576j/SchoenbergCS1-2.mp3[/audio] my ringtone on my phone.
I really, really wish that he wrote more in this modern/romantic hybrid style.
Quote from: EigenUser on September 07, 2014, 02:25:52 AM
I've been going through a phase lately where I think that Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony No. 1 is one of the best things since sliced bread.
I really, really wish that he wrote more in this modern/romantic hybrid style.
Or for kazoo.
Quote from: EigenUser on September 07, 2014, 02:25:52 AM
I've been going through a phase lately where I think that Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony No. 1 is one of the best things since sliced bread. THIS melody [audio]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/4n0aslumqfysmyg/SchoenbergCS1-1.mp3[/audio] has been stuck in my head for a few days now. Such a beautiful melody for the lower strings to have.
And I'm going to make this one [audio]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/g3xb48sib07576j/SchoenbergCS1-2.mp3[/audio] my ringtone on my phone.
I really, really wish that he wrote more in this modern/romantic hybrid style.
Yes, the
Chamber Symphony No. 1 is a fantastic work, but I've got to vouch for
Five Pieces for Orchestra yet again. One of most marvelous things Schoenberg wrote IMHO.
Quote from: Mirror Image on September 07, 2014, 09:24:01 AM
Yes, the Chamber Symphony No. 1 is a fantastic work, but I've got to vouch for Five Pieces for Orchestra yet again. One of most marvelous things Schoenberg wrote IMHO.
Meh. I do like the first one, though. The others seem to leave me cold and I've heard them many times by now. Maybe later.
For the 2nd-VS "pieces" pieces (:D) I strongly prefer Webern's
Six Pieces. The Berg is my least favorite, by far. If I include the Boulez orchestrated
Notations (which is very tempting for me to do, even though he was not even in the 2nd-VS), that would probably tie for me with the Webern. I don't know. The Webern is just so powerful. Especially that devastating 4th movement and the two that follow.
(you're back! ;D)
Quote from: EigenUser on September 07, 2014, 01:30:42 PM
Meh. I do like the first one, though. The others seem to leave me cold and I've heard them many times by now. Maybe later.
For the 2nd-VS "pieces" pieces (:D) I strongly prefer Webern's Six Pieces. The Berg is my least favorite, by far. If I include the Boulez orchestrated Notations (which is very tempting for me to do, even though he was not even in the 2nd-VS), that would probably tie for me with the Webern. I don't know. The Webern is just so powerful. Especially that devastating 4th movement and the two that follow.
(you're back! ;D)
Thanks for the welcome return. :) Webern is my least favorite composer of
The Second Viennese School. Berg is absolute favorite and has been a favorite for quite some time now, but I'm getting more and more into Schoenberg. Webern just leaves me cold in general. I do like
Passacaglia a lot, though.
Six Pieces for Orchestra is pretty good, but doesn't touch what the other two did IMHO. I can't stand Boulez BTW. I do think
Rituel is a pretty cool work, though. Never cared for anything else he's done, but I'm still going to approach his music with an open ear as I do have own the
Complete Works box set on DG and I need to see if my opinions have changed at all.
Have you heard any of Hartmann's music? How about Schnittke?
Quote from: Mirror Image on September 07, 2014, 04:14:15 PM
Thanks for the welcome return. :) Webern is my least favorite composer of The Second Viennese School. Berg is absolute favorite and has been a favorite for quite some time now, but I'm getting more and more into Schoenberg. Webern just leaves me cold in general. I do like Passacaglia a lot, though. Six Pieces for Orchestra is pretty good, but doesn't touch what the other two did IMHO. I can't stand Boulez BTW. I do think Rituel is a pretty cool work, though. Never cared for anything else he's done, but I'm still going to approach his music with an open ear as I do have own the Complete Works box set on DG and I need to see if my opinions have changed at all.
Have you heard any of Hartmann's music? How about Schnittke?
I've not heard Hartmann, but I have heard one thing (maybe more, but I can't remember) by Schnittke. It was the
Piano Concerto (with strings). I thought it was okay, but I have no problem with it. I've heard many comparisons between Shostakovich and Schnittke, so that might be why I am not feeling immediately compelled to hear more. I think that the way I feel about Shostakovich might be similar to how you feel about Messiaen, though with significantly less animosity/dislike towards him than you with Messiaen. I like some works, but I don't entirely get the hype. Certainly a great composer (the 9th is one of my favorite symphonies ever, actually, and I love the E minor piano trio), but not really for me.
Have you heard the Boulez
Notations for orchestra? The last one is wild. Such a raucous. I love it! Makes great running music.
Quote from: EigenUser on September 07, 2014, 05:15:18 PM
I've not heard Hartmann, but I have heard one thing (maybe more, but I can't remember) by Schnittke. It was the Piano Concerto (with strings). I thought it was okay, but I have no problem with it. I've heard many comparisons between Shostakovich and Schnittke, so that might be why I am not feeling immediately compelled to hear more. I think that the way I feel about Shostakovich might be similar to how you feel about Messiaen, though with significantly less animosity/dislike towards him than you with Messiaen. I like some works, but I don't entirely get the hype. Certainly a great composer (the 9th is one of my favorite symphonies ever, actually, and I love the E minor piano trio), but not really for me.
I think the comparisons with Shostakovich and Schnittke are pretty laughable at best. These are two entirely different composers. Schnittke's early works like his
Symphony No. 0 and
Nagasaki point to Shostakovich, but Schnittke's mature compositional voice is clearly rooted in a desire to meld different genres of music into one. Polystylism if you will. Shostakovich did this to an extent, but he never fleshed it out quite the way Schnittke has done. Schnittke's later work became much more bleak and introspective and this is due, in part, to his poor health, although he never has had the best health. My buddy Daniel (Madaboutmahler) put it perfectly about Schnitte when he wrote:
"What I hear in Schnittke's music is an extraordinary sense of musical realism, of an artist's life.... especially in that context. But, there are places with glimpses of light, like the lyrical part of the second movement of the viola concerto, or perhaps evening towards the end of this symphony, Schnittke's optimism peaking through the realism, but realism always seems to win in the end....."
Quote from: EigenUser on September 07, 2014, 05:15:18 PMHave you heard the Boulez Notations for orchestra? The last one is wild. Such a raucous. I love it! Makes great running music.
I haven't (yet), but in due time.
Quote from: Mirror Image on September 07, 2014, 05:36:36 PM
I haven't (yet), but in due time.
I have a feeling that you would like that one, actually. The first works of Boulez that I heard were his 2nd piano sonata and
Structures for two pianos. This made me hate his music immediately. But, slowly, I am coming to see what a great composer he is.
Rituel is a pretty good one, too, as you said. My favorite work of his is
Derive I. A step further would be
Repons. So I guess I do quite like Boulez now.
It's funny, because I often hear many tonal references in his music, though I'm sure he'd want to downplay this. For instance, there is a clear open fifth played at the end of the 2nd orchestral
Notations*. I mean, other things are being sounded, but an open fifth stands out to my ears. I also hear this modally-flavored Eastern folk-like melody near the end of
Derive I.
The last orchestral
Notations (probably my favorite, though it's hard to pick) has a very strong rhythmic drive. If listening to, say, Penderecki's
Fluorescences is akin to going skydiving, then the Boulez in question is like a roller coaster. With skydiving, it isn't exact (though you have an idea of what will happen), but the mechanism is very simple and there is no need for calculation. On a roller coaster, all of the forces, velocities, and accelerations have been carefully planned out and calculated. But, you don't necessarily think about this on the ride -- you just enjoy the thrill!
I'm glad to see Ligeti listed twice in your "current listening"! I'm sure it isn't a mistake :D. By the way, what do you think of the
Etudes?
*Note the ordering -- he didn't orchestrate them all and he changed the order of them from the original piano version. For instance, the last one of the orchestrated set is actually the second of the original piano set. Of course, they are ordered how he wished on the box set. He also elaborated on each one significantly. The original piano pieces are very short.
Where does actual emotion figure into your analysis of Boulez's music, Nate? Does his music move you emotionally? All of my favorite composers strike apart of my psyche in different ways, but, more importantly, they affect me emotionally. This is where music comes alive for me.
BTW, Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 tells a story and has a narrative. Messiaen's music doesn't have a story to tell IMHO. There's a reason why Shostakovich is hyped to the hills and that reason is his music affects people in a completely universal way. Messiaen seems more interested in dragging a composition out instead of putting it out of its misery. Plus, I don't feel he communicates anything with his music. It's just one 'block' after another.
Quote from: Mirror Image on September 07, 2014, 06:30:52 PM
Where does actual emotion figure into your analysis of Boulez's music, Nate? Does his music move you emotionally? All of my favorite composers strike apart of my psyche in different ways, but, more importantly, they affect me emotionally. This is where music comes alive for me.
Short answers to this question -- Boulez's
Derive I and
Repons both have this very enigmatic feel that appeals to me. And each of the orchestral
Notations have their own "feel" as well. Most notable (no pun intended :D) is the last one, which I find absolutely terrifying and thrilling.
Quote from: Mirror Image on September 07, 2014, 06:30:52 PM
BTW, Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 tells a story and has a narrative. Messiaen's music doesn't have a story to tell IMHO. There's a reason why Shostakovich is hyped to the hills and that reason is his music affects people in a completely universal way. Messiaen seems more interested in dragging a composition out instead of putting it out of its misery. Plus, I don't feel he communicates anything with his music. It's just one 'block' after another.
Well, the length of some of his works is overlong, I agree. That doesn't mean I don't enjoy them in sections. There's no way I'm going to be able to fully appreciate
Des Canyons aux Etoiles or even the
Turangalila-Symphonie if I listen to the thing from cover to cover. I'd like to say that this would be true, but it isn't. Part of it is my own problem with pieces of long duration, but I also think that Messiaen had a tendency to stretch his works out. No one is perfect, and I still enjoy his music very much. Very much.
Shostakovich's
Symphony No. 7 does tell a narrative, and for me this is really that work's only saving grace. I still dislike it immensely, but hey, its my loss. Maybe in time I'll come to appreciate it. Over the past few months I've decided to try and forget about personal taste (which isn't easy) and try to find positive qualities in anything I listen to. I figure if John Lennon and Simon Rattle like Stockhausen, then there must be something there -- they both certainly know better than I do.
Though I really like music that tells a story (and often add one of my own if there isn't one readily available ;D), I don't think it is necessary at all. I mean, can we really say that any one of Bach's keyboard suites or Ockeghem's masses aren't worth hearing since they don't tell a story? Or the non-programmatic Shosti 9?
Of course, the
Turangalila-Symphonie does tell a story very blatantly -- the very same one told by Wagner in his
Tristan and Isolde. Besides, even without a story I find most of Messiaen to be pure joy. I was so happy yesterday doing homework while listening to
Des Canyons aux Etoiles (which doesn't really tell a story, but does bring to mind the grandiosity of the great West).
Vingt-Regards...,
Trois Petites Liturgies,
Visions de l'Amen, and
L'Ascension all make me ecstatic.
Oiseaux Exotiques is a kind of scherzo (or maybe I should say divertimento) in the sense that it is a fun little work. Each of the
Sept Haikai bring me to a different scene, mentally. And
Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum is just plain powerful.
I'm not trying to convince you that you should like Messiaen or that you shouldn't like Shostakovich. Both are towering 20th-century figures and fantastic composers. I don't know why you seem to want to convince me that I shouldn't like Messiaen, but I can assure you that won't happen. He is currently my fourth favorite composer and his music has a balance of emotion and structure that really impresses me. He doesn't use sentiment against intellect. Instead he seems to be preferring to find a way to merge the two and use one to strengthen the other.
Besides, if Messiaen is good enough for Matt Groening, he is good enough for me! :D
Now that you are listening to classical again, I
need to know if you've heard any music of Maurice Ohana and what you think of him.
Nate, I think John means that he wants the music to develop, when he says that it tells a story, and it has nothing to do with programmatic vs. absolute music.
Quote from: North Star on September 08, 2014, 01:20:45 AM
Nate, I think John means that he wants the music to develop, when he says that it tells a story, and it has nothing to do with programmatic vs. absolute music.
...In which case this is totally subjective (as far as if this matters for it to be good or not). I assumed that he was referring to the "story" of the Leningrad, though, since that is the part that stands out in my mind.
Quote from: EigenUser on September 08, 2014, 12:34:38 AMWell, the length of some of his works is overlong, I agree. That doesn't mean I don't enjoy them in sections. There's no way I'm going to be able to fully appreciate Des Canyons aux Etoiles or even the Turangalila-Symphonie if I listen to the thing from cover to cover. I'd like to say that this would be true, but it isn't. Part of it is my own problem with pieces of long duration, but I also think that Messiaen had a tendency to stretch his works out. No one is perfect, and I still enjoy his music very much. Very much.
Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 does tell a narrative, and for me this is really that work's only saving grace. I still dislike it immensely, but hey, its my loss. Maybe in time I'll come to appreciate it. Over the past few months I've decided to try and forget about personal taste (which isn't easy) and try to find positive qualities in anything I listen to. I figure if John Lennon and Simon Rattle like Stockhausen, then there must be something there -- they both certainly know better than I do.
Though I really like music that tells a story (and often add one of my own if there isn't one readily available ;D), I don't think it is necessary at all. I mean, can we really say that any one of Bach's keyboard suites or Ockeghem's masses aren't worth hearing since they don't tell a story? Or the non-programmatic Shosti 9?
Of course, the Turangalila-Symphonie does tell a story very blatantly -- the very same one told by Wagner in his Tristan and Isolde. Besides, even without a story I find most of Messiaen to be pure joy. I was so happy yesterday doing homework while listening to Des Canyons aux Etoiles (which doesn't really tell a story, but does bring to mind the grandiosity of the great West). Vingt-Regards..., Trois Petites Liturgies, Visions de l'Amen, and L'Ascension all make me ecstatic. Oiseaux Exotiques is a kind of scherzo (or maybe I should say divertimento) in the sense that it is a fun little work. Each of the Sept Haikai bring me to a different scene, mentally. And Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum is just plain powerful.
I'm not trying to convince you that you should like Messiaen or that you shouldn't like Shostakovich. Both are towering 20th-century figures and fantastic composers. I don't know why you seem to want to convince me that I shouldn't like Messiaen, but I can assure you that won't happen. He is currently my fourth favorite composer and his music has a balance of emotion and structure that really impresses me. He doesn't use sentiment against intellect. Instead he seems to be preferring to find a way to merge the two and use one to strengthen the other.
Besides, if Messiaen is good enough for Matt Groening, he is good enough for me! :D
Now that you are listening to classical again, I need to know if you've heard any music of Maurice Ohana and what you think of him.
I certainly can understand and relate to your viewpoints about Messiaen, Nate. I'm not
trying to convince you to like his music or dislike his music. I'm simply throwing my own two cents into the fountain. That's great that you
get Messiaen but I'm afraid I won't ever be able to grasp a lot of his music. As you know, I like the earlier works, but I also like
Quartet for the End of Time, but these are the only works I truly enjoy. When I speak of a narrative, I'm talking about the development of the music from point A to point B to point C, etc. Not necessarily a 'story' if you will, but a sense of flow and some kind of drama and tension, because without these elements, I don't think I could ever enjoy the music, which is why I could never enjoy a composer like Boulez, Stockhausen, or Messiaen. Truth be told, I get more from Xenakis than I do any of the afore mentioned composers. :)
Anyway, yes, it's all subjective to what we respond to and what we get from music. Let's see I've heard Ohana's
Cello Concerto and it didn't really speak to me, but I've only heard it once via YouTube. I believe this was around the time you were discovering the work for yourself.
This thread title always makes me think of FRASIER.
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2LwDu1XiyBQ/TsWG3vO99GI/AAAAAAAABL4/j6f8EtRPR-Y/s320/Ep86.jpg)
Quote from: North Star on September 08, 2014, 07:36:12 AM
This thread title always makes me think of FRASIER.
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2LwDu1XiyBQ/TsWG3vO99GI/AAAAAAAABL4/j6f8EtRPR-Y/s320/Ep86.jpg)
Haha! That's a great episode. Baby was quite the bird. She really hated that doorbell.
"Cute, but stupid." ;D
Quote from: Mirror Image on September 08, 2014, 07:38:40 AM
"Cute, but stupid." ;D
Okay guys, enough on Turangalila.
>:D
Quote from: Ken B on September 08, 2014, 09:07:19 AM
Okay guys, enough on Turangalila.
>:D
*clicks "
report to moderator"*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWA0rbYVTLo
Woke up this morning with the theme from the finale of Mozart's Concerto No. 22 set against a big band jazz orchestra. The tune goes in an unexpected direction and winds up quoting Woody Guthrie's line "This land was made for you and me." It works bizarrely well.
Quote from: Brian on September 13, 2014, 05:40:41 AM
Woke up this morning with the theme from the finale of Mozart's Concerto No. 22 set against a big band jazz orchestra. The tune goes in an unexpected direction and winds up quoting Woody Guthrie's line "This land was made for you and me." It works bizarrely well.
Wow. I envy you.
I've currently got Nielsen's Symphony No. 5: I. Tempo giusto—Adagio non troppo stuck in my head. 8)
Quote from: Mirror Image on September 21, 2014, 06:50:16 AM
I've currently got Nielsen's Symphony No. 5: I. Tempo giusto—Adagio non troppo stuck in my head. 8)
Take it off repeat John.
Quote from: Ken B on September 21, 2014, 05:40:34 PM
Take it off repeat John.
It finally went away now, Ken, but, now, I'm having Bruckner's 9th crush my cranium. :)
I've had various works of Messiaen stuck in my head (a good thing for me, I guess) for the past couple of months. Melodies from his earlier works are so much fun to whistle: Turangalila-Symphonie, Trois Petites Liturgies, Visions de l'Amen, etc.
This morning, though, I woke up with Faure's Requiem stuck in my head. I realized that the beginning of the Agnus Dei sounds strikingly similar to Bach's Jesu....
My head once repeated the following popular tunes:
- the "Moonlight" sonata adagio, which turned into
- "Komm, süsser Tod, komm selge Ruh", which turned into
- Cottrau's "Santa Lucia", which turned into
- "Bridge over Troubled Water", which turned into
- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
Then back to "Moonlight" again and so on ad nauseam.
The horror, the horror.
Quote from: Linus on September 22, 2014, 08:01:34 AM
My head once repeated the following popular tunes:
- the "Moonlight" sonata adagio, which turned into
- "Komm, süsser Tod, komm selge Ruh", which turned into
- Cottrau's "Santa Lucia", which turned into
- "Bridge over Troubled Water", which turned into
- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
Then back to "Moonlight" again and so on ad nauseam.
The horror, the horror.
Sounds like you need to listen to some Schnittke now. ;D
Fêtes, Debussy. Ansermet conducting. Happy New Year to all.
Quote from: RJR on December 28, 2014, 05:50:18 AM
Fêtes, Debussy. Ansermet conducting. Happy New Year to all.
Yup, I've had that stuck in my head many times before.
Gigues, too.
Currently, Bruckner 6 has been on repeat in my mind.
Quote from: EigenUser on December 28, 2014, 05:44:24 PM
Yup, I've had that stuck in my head many times before. Gigues, too.
Currently, Bruckner 6 has been on repeat in my mind.
Progress.
Quote from: EigenUser on December 28, 2014, 05:44:24 PM
Currently, Bruckner 6 has been on repeat in my mind.
- me for the entire past month, including probably 12 of the last 36 hours.
Quote from: Brian on December 28, 2014, 07:19:46 PM
- me for the entire past month, including probably 12 of the last 36 hours.
Gentlemen! I have the cure for Bruckner 6 stuckitis! Indeed, this works for any stuck piece. And it is so simple. Obtain and listen to a Mehta performance of it, twice if necessary. Voila! Nothing Mehta does is memorable. you might not be even able to
name the piece.
The soundtrack from Always Sometimes Monsters
Currently, the second movement, The Enemy God And The Dance Of The Spirits Of Darkness, from Prokofiev's Scythian Suite.
https://www.youtube.com/v/sfQb6BKq_ZU
Cannonball Adderley's catchy tune "Sermonette"
Quote from: Brian on December 28, 2014, 07:19:46 PM
- me for the entire past month, including probably 12 of the last 36 hours.
Which part(s)? :D
I have the main intro theme (lower strings), that dotted-triplet rhythm, and the last climax of the finale (when the dotted rhythm comes back in the horns).
Listened to a Gershwin CD earlier and now I can't "Swanee" and Al Jolson's voice out of my head.
Sarge
Currently stuck in my head is the Credo movement from Schnittke's Requiem, especially when it settles into that 'rock rhythm' which makes it sound like Orff's Carmina Burana meets Black Sabbath. 8)
Went for a New Year's Day walk today and stuck in my head were Vaughan Williams's Tuba Concerto and the slow movement of George Lloyd's 8th Symphony, neither of which I have listened to recently! Very odd.
Currently, the scherzos of Bruckner 6, 7, and 9 (sometimes all at the same time :o). Especially 9.
While I was driving today, it hit me -- the scherzo of Bruckner's 7th and the scherzo of Dvorak's 9th have similar main themes.
Drifting through my mind pleasantly? An ever-shifting array.
Stuck in my head like a jingle? The timpani theme in Strauss' Burleske.
Bach's Trio Sonata BWV 525. It is Chapuis' fault!! >:( ;)
[asin] B005HO1WCY[/asin]
Messiaen's Trois Petites Liturgies, 1st movement (fast middle section).
"Ce 'oui' que chante comme un echo de lumiere..."
Quote from: Fagotterdämmerung on January 13, 2015, 04:28:19 PM
Stuck in my head like a jingle? The timpani theme in Strauss' Burleske.
I think I'll revisit this work tonight. I've enjoyed it on every revisit.
Delius always seems to linger around in my mind. At work on Saturday, out of nowhere, I started humming the main melody to On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring.
Brahms Sym. 2, finale. I think I've played the entire movement in my head about 5 times today.
My interpretation is masterful ;D
Quote from: TheGSMoeller on March 09, 2015, 02:27:29 PM
Brahms Sym. 2, finale. I think I've played the entire movement in my head about 5 times today.
My interpretation is masterful ;D
Your avatar must influence you! :P
Cyrill Rootham, Symphony No. 1 (1932). I 'discovery' I postponed for too many years. ???
Out of character. I've had Mozart's 22nd PC (3rd movement) in my head nonstop for the past couple of hours. I must have heard it five times in the past three days.
Richard Strauss said he did not want to hear Puccini again because the tunes kept playing over in his head.
Schubert's eighth, and it has been for weeks!
I have a bunch of things stuck in my head recently. Beethoven's 6th (1st movement), Schumann's 2nd (finale), Bartok solo piano sonata, Messiaen, Mahler, Bruckner, etc. Furthermore, many different melodies from various Haydn symphonies have morphed into a super-symphony.
It's like my own personal version of the 3rd movement of Berio's Sinfonia.
Currently, the scene from Ravel's L'enfant et les Sortileges where that guy jumps out of the boy's math textbook and starts yelling problems/equations at him. I'm pretty sure that has happened to me on more than one occasion. I bet Ken can relate, too.
Nielsen symphony nr 3 . The big waltz-like theme in the horns...
P.
I woke up this morning with the Andante movement from Mahler's Sixth Symphony in my head, alternating with the opening bars of the Sibelius Third Symphony.
Which reminded me that, with all the fuss recently about Sibelius here on GMG, I have been wondering about starting a "Sibelius Third Symphony: Why No Respect?" topic! 0:)
Quote from: EigenUser on June 09, 2015, 02:16:11 AM
Currently, the scene from Ravel's L'enfant et les Sortileges where that guy jumps out of the boy's math textbook and starts yelling problems/equations at him.
Did you know this one:
http://www.poemspoet.com/stanislaw-lem/love-and-tensor-algebra
Quote from: Cato on June 09, 2015, 03:25:22 AMWhich reminded me that, with all the fuss recently about Sibelius here on GMG, I have been wondering about starting a "Sibelius Third Symphony: Why No Respect?" topic! 0:)
It certainly deserves more. Can't be easy between the emotional huffing and puffing of the adjacent symphonies.
Quote from: Cato on June 09, 2015, 03:25:22 AMWhich reminded me that, with all the fuss recently about Sibelius here on GMG, I have been wondering about starting a "Sibelius Third Symphony: Why No Respect?" topic! 0:)
Sibelius' 3rd is so awesome! I was just listening to it last time (probably the thousandth time I've heard it), but it's freshness and vitality never has worn off. It's certainly an underrated masterpiece amongst his symphonic oeuvre.
Sibelius' 3rd is worthy of anyone's respect. Except that it comes after two refulgent romantic compositions, and before the composer's most original symphonic compositions (4 and 5). And before the beloved lyrical 6th and saturnine dark-currents-traversed 7th. IOW it's a jovial, folk-based symphony on a very high level, unlike anything else the Master has produced (En Saga, Tapiola and Pohjola's Daughter make nice discmates).
Quote from: Jo498 on June 09, 2015, 03:30:45 AM
Did you know this one:
http://www.poemspoet.com/stanislaw-lem/love-and-tensor-algebra
Oh my god, that's hilarious.
In my high school we had two calculus teachers that ended up getting in some sort of relationship (the guy was married and the woman had just recently divorced). Both were fired, not surprisingly. This poem reminds me of that.
As I read through Lem's poem again, I wonder if the very last line refers to something I do not get (or if I get it right and the reference is to (spoiler) breasts. I had a certain maths/physics teacher in HS who usually asked a certain girl in class to rise as an illustration of the Latin meaning of "sinus" (impossible to believe nowadays that this did not lead to trouble for that teacher but he was very popular despite such things)
Quote from: André on June 10, 2015, 04:20:02 PM
Sibelius' 3rd is worthy of anyone's respect. Except that it comes after two refulgent romantic compositions, and before the composer's most original symphonic compositions (4 and 5). And before the beloved lyrical 6th and saturnine dark-currents-traversed 7th. IOW it's a jovial, folk-based symphony on a very high level, unlike anything else the Master has produced (En Saga, Tapiola and Pohjola's Daughter make nice discmates).
Hard to argue with this! 8)
Quote from: Jo498 on June 11, 2015, 02:48:03 AM
breasts. I had a certain maths/physics teacher in HS who usually asked a certain girl in class to rise as an illustration of the Latin meaning of "sinus" (impossible to believe nowadays that this did not lead to trouble for that teacher but he was very popular despite such things)
Thinking back to my high school days, I would say that such things were why he was popular.
Prokofiev Symphony No. 1 in D major - and I've no idea why, because I haven't listened to it in a long time.
Quote from: NikF on June 17, 2015, 08:57:34 AM
Prokofiev Symphony No. 1 in D major - and I've no idea why, because I haven't listened to it in a long time.
Not surprised, at either point 8)
Quote from: johnshade on March 14, 2015, 02:04:06 PM
Richard Strauss said he did not want to hear Puccini again because the tunes kept playing over in his head.
Jealous, eh? 8)
Isn't this wonderful? It's been stuck in my head for a couple of days now (and makes me smile each time it comes back :) )
https://www.youtube.com/v/7CpcO21bonI
And I must say I find this version by Sabine Devieilhe, Aimery Lefèvre and Les Ambassadeurs, conducted by Alexis Kossenko, terrfic!!!
..and here's another version (William Christie, no less, in a fun production form the Paris Opéra):
https://www.youtube.com/v/3zegtH-acXE
Forêts paisibles, forêts paisibles....!!! ;)
Quote from: ritter on June 25, 2015, 02:30:17 PM
Isn't this wonderful? It's been stuck in my head for a couple of days now (and makes me smile each time it comes back :) )
https://www.youtube.com/v/7CpcO21bonI
And I must say I find this version by Sabine Devieilhe, Aimery Lefèvre and Les Ambassadeurs, conducted by Alexis Kossenko, terrfic!!!
..and here's another version (William Christie, no less, in a fun production form the Paris Opéra):
https://www.youtube.com/v/3zegtH-acXE
Forêts paisibles, forêts paisibles....!!! ;)
Thanks,
Ritter! Those very enjoyable clips made me smile and now the theme is stuck in
my head! :D
Quote from: Moonfish on June 26, 2015, 11:35:02 PM
Thanks, Ritter! Those very enjoyable clips made me smile and now the theme is stuck in my head! :D
:) You can even join in, if you want:
https://www.youtube.com/v/EQpalSSF4OA
;)
Quote from: ritter on June 27, 2015, 12:47:38 AM
:) You can even join in, if you want:
https://www.youtube.com/v/EQpalSSF4OA
;)
They seem like they were having a blast! 8)
Quote from: ritter on June 27, 2015, 12:47:38 AM
:) You can even join in, if you want:
https://www.youtube.com/v/EQpalSSF4OA
;)
Ever have Boulez stuck in your head?
Quote from: EigenUser on June 27, 2015, 02:42:15 AM
Ever have Boulez stuck in your head?
As a matter of fact, I have! 8) As far as I can remember, these pieces:
1)
"Bel édifice et les pressentiments", double, the ninth movement of
Le Marteau...the opening lines of the soprano (
"J'écoute marcher dans mes jambes..") , and then the music fading away at the end, with the interplay of the flute and the gong...
https://www.youtube.com/v/ax48jF7wOH8
2) The haunting melody of
Mémoriale:
https://www.youtube.com/v/96X_uurl5f4
3) The end of
Tombeau, from
Pli selon pli. A repeated figure of the pitched percussion, with an interjection of the brass, followed by the vocalist's soaring line that end in the word "mort" not sung, but spoken (it starts at 11'24" in the video):
https://www.youtube.com/v/i4c7gogNWDE
:)
Cheers,
That Mozartian melody from the second movement of Schnittke's 3rd symphony...
Quote from: EigenUser on August 15, 2015, 01:34:24 AM
That Mozartian melody from the second movement of Schnittke's 3rd symphony...
Speaking of Mozart, that's my problem. I recently heard the
Piano Sonata #17 on the radio and several days later craved the catchy Allegretto therefrom. Just happened to have it in the
Z7 Collection, Claudio Arrau, listened to it again, just once, and it won't let me be. Lord a' mercy!
Currently stuck in my head: the 'chase sequence' from Bartok's The Miraculous Mandarin. 8)
Quote from: Mirror Image on August 16, 2015, 06:50:17 AM
Currently stuck in my head: the 'chase sequence' from Bartok's The Miraculous Mandarin. 8)
John, trade me that for the Wolfie, will ya'?
Quote from: ZauberdrachenNr.7 on August 16, 2015, 08:48:22 AM
John, trade me that for the Wolfie, will ya'?
Only if you throw in a slice of cheesecake from The Cheesecake Factory. ;)
Quote from: Mirror Image on August 16, 2015, 06:50:17 AM
Currently stuck in my head: the 'chase sequence' from Bartok's The Miraculous Mandarin. 8)
Damn you, now that's in
my head. >:(
Quote from: EigenUser on August 17, 2015, 10:02:03 AM
Damn you, now that's in my head. >:(
It's certainly always lurking in some round corner of my head.
Right now: Mahler 5, finale. ;D
My own Op.129, this week, actually.
What if what you have stuck in your head is what you are currently listening to? Where do you post it? Here or there? (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,21492.0.html)
Quote from: Maestro267 on November 01, 2015, 10:06:42 AM
What if what you have stuck in your head is what you are currently listening to? Where do you post it? Here or there? (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,21492.0.html)
Yes. ;)
The trumpet theme from Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy. Also parts of Prometheus.
Delius' Irmelin Prelude. But when is this piece not stuck in my head? There's a lot of other Delian melodies floating around as well. Sometimes they subside, sometimes they eat me alive for a day or year. ;D
The scherzo (Vivace, seond movement) of John Veale's exuberant Second Symphony (1965).
Quote from: Thatfabulousalien on August 23, 2016, 10:53:55 PM
That ballet means a lot to me but yes, I've had that stuck in my head many times, as with those clarinet cadenzas ;D
Bartok is one of my absolute favorites and I'm happy to read that
Mandarin means a lot to you. It's an exceptional piece of music.
https://www.youtube.com/v/IfMpZqB75es
"Mein Herr Marquis" sung in English by Florence Foster Jenkins, a real EAR WORM!!!
Currently stuck in my head is The Revival movement from Ives' Violin Sonata No. 2.
my gift to you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASiAZ0XQAIg
Made the mistake of listening a bit to the radio whilst picking-up. Chopin's Waltz #3 in A minor, the dolorous and obsessive opening and closing bars. Here, why should I be the only one to "suffer"?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGdpRmL2XUc
Quote from: Scion7 on September 01, 2016, 06:47:00 AM
my gift to you:
https://www.youtube.com/v/ASiAZ0XQAIg
Now you can see it. ;)
First movement of J.S. Bach's Trio Sonata No. 1 for Organ in E Flat Major.
Kyrie in F major KV 33
One of the choruses from Wagner's Lohengrin, but I won't know which one it is until I sit down and listen to it later today(I have the Kempe recording). I have this problem pretty frequently of remembering melodies I love, that get stuck in my head, but not being able to place where they came from until much later.
I can't seem to get J.S. Bach's Trio Sonata No. 1 in E Flat Major for organ, movement 1, out of my head. It's the Koopman performance.
That's fine with me!! 8)
Quote from: Thatfabulousalien on September 22, 2016, 01:35:08 PM
The Rite Of Spring is happening to me again this morning ???
You're being sacrificed? Again? Run away, fabulous!
Quote from: Thatfabulousalien on September 22, 2016, 01:56:58 PM
I'm currently been danced to death, thanks a lot Igor! >:(
First there was this eerie folk melody, then there was all this really dissonant polytonality, now I'm trapped between 300 time signature changes in 2 minutes....a little help here???? :-[
Seriously though, every few days I wake up with it playing in my head.
:laugh: Try substituting the Firebird, even under the worst possible scenario you'll come back to life...
Quote from: Thatfabulousalien on September 22, 2016, 01:56:58 PM
I'm currently been danced to death, thanks a lot Igor! >:(
First there was this eerie folk melody, then there was all this really dissonant polytonality, now I'm trapped between 300 time signature changes in 2 minutes....a little help here???? :-[
Seriously though, every few days I wake up with it playing in my head.
Have a
Stravinsky Martini...
and then check out Lutoslawski's
Chantefleurs et Chantefables... a late work, and a gorgeous one.
https://www.youtube.com/v/g-WPqcWaNks
Pt. 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E9RLv1D0Fk
Best regards
A brain.
Romeo and Juliet by Prokofiev. I've been watching a DVD of one of my favourite dancers Alessandra Ferri performing that ballet with the La Scala. During the final scene (death of Juliet) the drama in the music is already high and emotionally driven. But then just to heighten things further there's a trumpet(?) line that harks back to the lost innocence by reprising part of the earlier Young Juliet theme. ;D It's corny as hell, but it fits and it works and right now has taken up residency in my head. :laugh:
You can hear it shortly after about 7:20 -
http://www.youtube.com/v/wt8Z8uQFV14
Currently stuck in my head: the Overture from Janacek's The Makropulos Case. It's so infectious!
A hour ago I was in heavy city traffic, concentrating on my driving when suddenly, for no discernable reason,, the main theme, first movement, of Ive's D minor Symphony came crashing into my head. I enjoyed that for a few minutes but, then, it was replaced by Abba's "Take a Chance on Me" :D There must be some cosmic connection between the two 8)
Sarge
A sword...
I had John Ireland's beautiful tone poem 'The Forgotten Rite' going through my head all day in London. It was played on the radio this morning. That is until now, as I foolishly read the previous messages here and now, as I want to go to bed, have a stupid Abba song going through my head!
>:D :'( :P ??? >:(
Sarge has a lot to answer for. 8)
Quote from: Thatfabulousalien on October 11, 2016, 06:18:41 PM
I now have that Abba song in my head because you meantioned it :'(
Quote from: vandermolen on October 18, 2016, 12:03:16 PM
I want to go to bed, have a stupid Abba song going through my head!
>:D :'( :P ??? >:(
Sarge has a lot to answer for. 8)
Sorry guys. At least the misery is shared :D
Sarge
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on October 18, 2016, 12:30:45 PM
Sorry guys. At least the misery is shared :D
Sarge
You're forgiven but kindly refrain from making too many references to your 'Abba's Greatest Hits' compilation CD Collection.
8) ;)
Lots of Dvorak lately, different pieces. Serenade, Dumky Trio, Symphony 6 to name a few. Perhaps he just that good with melodies?
And maybe its a sign I need to que these up on my player.
Emmanuel Chabrier's Habanera.
the opening chorale fantasia movement of Bach's cantata 'Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam' BWV 7
A dangerous question as it can spread the meme. Help! by the Beatles.
The Sehr langsam—Misterioso movement from Mahler's 3rd.
Quote from: Mirror Image on October 24, 2016, 11:15:45 AM
The Sehr langsam—Misterioso movement from Mahler's 3rd.
"
Weh spricht: Vergeh!
Weh spricht: Vergeh!
Doch alle Lust will Ewigkeit,
Will tiefe, tiefe Ewigkeit!"
That's been stuck (on and off, of course) in my head for some 30 years! :D
Quote from: ritter on October 24, 2016, 12:37:25 PM
"Weh spricht: Vergeh!
Weh spricht: Vergeh!
Doch alle Lust will Ewigkeit,
Will tiefe, tiefe Ewigkeit!"
That's been stuck (on and off, of course) in my head for some 30 years! :D
:D
"What is currently stuck in my head" ? Here's what is stuck in my head:
"How am I gonna pay for all this" ? ???
Followed by:
"How can I avert my wife finding out?" ::)
I can hear the answer in my head: some giant tolling alternating between "Not in your life" and "Good luck buddy!"
:'(
Quote from: André on October 24, 2016, 12:50:11 PM
"What is currently stuck in my head" ? Here's what is stuck in my head:
"How can I avert my wife finding out?" ::)
The trick is a PO box, and a baggy shirt.
BUMP
I had to get up really early this morning to catch a 7:00 am flight from Inverness to Heathrow (and connect there with a flight back home to Madrid), so got little sleep last night. Laying half awake in bed, I had long portions of the first movement of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto playing in my head (with great detail in the piano part). Curious. :o
Couldn't identify the pianist or conductor, though. ;D
Granados Danza española No. 4 (Villanesca) has a melody that tends to get stuck in my head.
There is a passage from the first movement of Mahler's 9th that is stuck in my head.
Bits and pieces from Offenbach's Le voyage dans la lune and Les brigands.
I'm in Minneapolis and the light rail here has a "honk" that is the first two notes of the jazz tune at the end of the TV show "Archer" so that song keeps getting stuck. I am highly susceptible to this kind of thing. At my office, the elevator "ding" is the first note of Schubert's impromptu D. 899 No. 2 so that work always gets stuck in my head when entering and leaving. Likewise Houston city transit doors opening with a "ding" that sets off Chopin nocturne Op. 9 No. 1.
Quote from: Brian on August 30, 2023, 06:59:45 AMI'm in Minneapolis and the light rail here has a "honk" that is the first two notes of the jazz tune at the end of the TV show "Archer" so that song keeps getting stuck. I am highly susceptible to this kind of thing. At my office, the elevator "ding" is the first note of Schubert's impromptu D. 899 No. 2 so that work always gets stuck in my head when entering and leaving. Likewise Houston city transit doors opening with a "ding" that sets off Chopin nocturne Op. 9 No. 1.
Hilarious! :D
Quote from: Brian on August 30, 2023, 06:59:45 AMI'm in Minneapolis and the light rail here has a "honk" that is the first two notes of the jazz tune at the end of the TV show "Archer" so that song keeps getting stuck. I am highly susceptible to this kind of thing. At my office, the elevator "ding" is the first note of Schubert's impromptu D. 899 No. 2 so that work always gets stuck in my head when entering and leaving. Likewise Houston city transit doors opening with a "ding" that sets off Chopin nocturne Op. 9 No. 1.
In the town I used to live in, the buttons at crosswalks beeped the first two notes of Ticheli's
Blue Shades for band. (It's a descending minor third, but I'd recently played Blue Shades.)
Now that I think of it, I have a Samsung air-conditioner which, when powered on or off, beeps the first six chords of the 1st movement of Beethoven's Eighth. I swear I'm not making it up.
I had a guitar piece also ingrained in my mind these days, and was trying to figure out who it was by (Tárrega? Sor?).
It was all very banal in the end: BA and Iberia made a mess of my flight bookings to and from the UK, and this had to be sorted out over the phone (not online). While being left on permahold at their customer service line, a guitar arrangement of the "Flower Duet" from Lakmé (BA's "theme song" for at least 30 years AFAIK) was constantly playing...
Quote from: ritter on August 30, 2023, 07:55:06 AMI had a guitar piece also ingrained in my mind these days, and was trying to figure out who it was by (Tarrega? Sor?).
It was all very banal in the end: BA and Iberia made a mess of my flight bookings to and from the UK, and this had to be sorted out over the phone (not online). While being left on permahold at their customer service line, a guitar arrangement of the "Flower Duet" from Lakmé (BA's "theme song" for at least 30 years AFAIK) was constantly playing...
Certainly not
Sor, who died 44 years before
Lakmé was premiered. Most probably
Tarrega.
Quote from: Florestan on August 30, 2023, 07:32:04 AMNow that I think of it, I have a Samsung air-conditioner which, when powered on or off, beeps the first six chords of the 1st movement of Beethoven's Eighth. I swear I'm not making it up.
See, I would have that stuck in my head all summer long!
Also, it is a very good "jingle" mini-tune.
Tristan Murail's La Mandragore
Quote from: Zauberschloss on August 31, 2023, 02:49:45 PMTristan Murail's La Mandragore
As a Murail fan, that must be a fabulous and unusual earworm. By any chance, is the pianist Marilyn Nonken? (Only because she does a lot of Murail.)
-Bruce
Quote from: Florestan on August 30, 2023, 07:32:04 AMNow that I think of it, I have a Samsung air-conditioner which, when powered on or off, beeps the first six chords of the 1st movement of Beethoven's Eighth. I swear I'm not making it up.
If l had money to waste, I'd buy that model for that reason alone. :laugh:
Quote from: brewski on August 31, 2023, 03:12:53 PMAs a Murail fan, that must be a fabulous and unusual earworm. By any chance, is the pianist Marilyn Nonken? (Only because she does a lot of Murail.)
-Bruce
It is indeed Marilyn Nonken, when her CD came out that was my introduction to Murail. I have been a fan ever since.
Quote from: Zauberschloss on August 31, 2023, 02:49:45 PMTristan Murail's La Mandragore
Interesting piece of music; I'm playing it now. :)
PD
@brewski I started listening to Territoires de l'oubli too, but got sidetracked, so will have to revisit it.
I didn't know what spectral music was, so I looked at Wiki; I see that there are disagreements as to how to define it by even those composing it! When I read that Debussy was a proto-spectral composer, it made me think: I could see how you could get something like Murail's music if you pulled Claude into the 21st century.
PD
Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on September 01, 2023, 08:04:16 AM@brewski I started listening to Territoires de l'oubli too, but got sidetracked, so will have to revisit it.
I didn't know what spectral music was, so I looked at Wiki; I see that there are disagreements as to how to define it by even those composing it! When I read that Debussy was a proto-spectral composer, it made me think: I could see how you could get something like Murail's music if you pulled Claude into the 21st century.
PD
That is pretty much how I hear much of Murail's piano music, it was love at first listen whereas others like Boulez and Leibowitz took longer to appreciate.
Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on September 01, 2023, 08:04:16 AMWhen I read that Debussy was a proto-spectral composer, it made me think: I could see how you could get something like Murail's music if you pulled Claude into the 21st century.
PD
Yes! This is
exactly what I have thought, ever since discovering spectral music: vault Debussy into the 21st century, give him access to computers, and voila.
Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on September 01, 2023, 08:04:16 AM@brewski I started listening to Territoires de l'oubli too, but got sidetracked, so will have to revisit it.
You may have run across this already, but YouTube has it with the score, if you're curious.
-Bruce
Right this minute, Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer has taken up temporary residence.
Once I've re-run my memories of Kurt Moll as Senta's father, I'll hopefully be able to evict Daland & Company for something featuring less weight and length. 8)
So, the ghost ship et.al. have sailed into the ether, and Bruckner's Fifth has taken their place. ;D
Quote from: LKB on September 03, 2023, 07:29:18 AMSo, the ghost ship et.al. have sailed into the ether, and Bruckner's Fifth has taken their place. ;D
Two or three of the main motives from that symphony are always getting stuck in my head too.
Three French earworms have been incessantly playing in my head in the last two weeks
Viens, gentille dame from
Boieldieu's
La dame blanchePourquoi me réveiller from
Massenet's
WertherBelle nuit, o nuit d'amour (Barcarolle) from
Offenbach's
Les contes d'Hoffmann
Be gone with you! Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole. To make matters worse David Oistrakh's 1954 recording being the greatest example of perfection in violin playing I have had the pleasure of hearing.
Quote from: Irons on September 19, 2023, 11:49:18 PMBe gone with you! Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole. To make matters worse David Oistrakh's 1954 recording being the greatest example of perfection in violin playing I have had the pleasure of hearing.
Great on both counts. The piece is gorgeous (it's been stuck in my head ever since I first heard it some 35 years ago) and Oistrakh is, well... Oistrakh. 8)
Weill's Alabama-Song, Moritat von Mackie Messer, Seeräuber-Jenny & Surabaya-Johnny are taking turns.
Beethoven's Missa Solemnis.
Quote from: ritter on September 25, 2023, 10:07:36 AMAll of it? :o
The Benedictus snuck in first, then other movements, out of order. Sometimes, the stereo between my ears isn't very organized. ::)
For the last eight hours or so, Brahms' Fourth has been keeping my 🧠 company. 8)
Currently, the famous Toccata from Widor's Symphony for Organ No. 5
Beethoven's fourth piano concerto keeps butting in though... ::)
The opening theme of the first movement of Beethoven's 1st Razumovsky quartet, Op. 59/1.
The opening melody from the finale of Nielsen's 3rd symphony.
The fourth movement of Brahms' Symphony No. 4.
Actually, " stuck " doesn't quite describe the situation, as this work is one of a few my brain sort of default's to if I'm focused on something non- musical, as l am now while sitting in the taxi en-route to my job.
The other pieces my brain automatically selects if I'm otherwise engaged include Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliette, Shostakovich's 6th and Mahler's Symphony no. 7.
Mozart Clarinet Quintet main theme of the finale
Saint-Saens PC 2 Scherzo and Trio
Casta Diva with Callas (from Norma) alternating with some songs from Dire Straits' Communiqué which I played for a friend a couple of days ago. :)
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I think Stravinsky's "Scherzo a la russe" might be the most diabolical earworm I have yet encountered. The tune is incredibly catchy, it's repeated a lot of times, and the piece ends mid-tune so your head wants to keep filling it in!
Mahler's Symphony no. 2 was in my head for a very long time, even a week after our performance of it. :laugh:
But at this precise moment, bits and pieces of the score from Lonesome Dove are bouncing around inside this old, cracked cranium.
Verrano a te sull'aure i miei sopiri ardenti, the gorgeous love duet between Lucia and Edgardo, one of Donizetti's happiest inspirations.
Pretty much any of the Bach or Handel I've been currently listening to --- so many earworms and only so much brain left. ;D
Growing Up by Nathan Halpern and Chris Ruggiero from the OST for Minding the Gap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTpnPyZLSaY
I am never not amazed at how music captures a moment - for me, nothing comes close to it - not even smell. There is so much held in each of the notes. :)
One of my students had their alarm go off in class by accident... it was the beginning of Tchaikovsky's 4th. Now it is stuck in my head!
Mozart's concerto for flute and harp is stuck in my head!! It comes and goes. It has been weeks since I listened to it, but it is such an earworm.
Very rare that a classical piece earworms me - perhaps because of the tuneless nonsense that I prefer to play.
My earworms are always from other genres, but oddly, always seem to stay with me for days on end (and occasionally, weeks).
Immensely frustrating.
Quote from: DavidW on February 24, 2025, 05:21:31 PMOne of my students had their alarm go off in class by accident... it was the beginning of Tchaikovsky's 4th. Now it is stuck in my head!
What a good alarm! It's perfect for the task. The only problem is my brain would play the next 40 minutes of the symphony every time the alarm went off ;D
The ding my elevator at work makes when it arrives is the first note of Schubert's impromptu d899 no. 2, so I almost always arrive at my desk with that stuck in my head. Kind of like when I lived in Houston and the Metro train arrival sound was the first note of Chopin's first nocturne...that was
always stuck in my head.
Quote from: foxandpeng on March 17, 2025, 05:08:33 AMperhaps because of the tuneless nonsense that I prefer to play.
;D ;D
Armin van Buuren & Natalie Gioia's Viva l'Opera:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-eNPtTwbWE
Africa for piano and orchestra by Saint-Saëns. What an earworm of a piece it is, absolutely exhilarating and sparkling all the way through.
Quote from: LKB on September 25, 2023, 08:55:34 AMBeethoven's Missa Solemnis.
The last time I gave it a listen it was the Credo that got stuck in my head the most.