tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post6931761551524690476..comments2024-03-27T23:06:03.736-05:00Comments on The Music Salon: I'm not surprised...Bryan Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-49341279138046939352017-03-11T07:22:37.816-06:002017-03-11T07:22:37.816-06:00As Marc says, just think of all the music we would...As Marc says, just think of all the music we wouldn't have to listen to!Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-36558925896202408402017-03-10T23:04:53.130-06:002017-03-10T23:04:53.130-06:00I've got a great box set of Mahler 78's re...I've got a great box set of Mahler 78's recorded 1910 to 1940, plus a disc of his original playing recorded in 1905 (on, of course, Nov 9!) on "Welte-Mignon piano rolls." Also I think I've seen some really cheap box sets offered on Amazon of collections of recordings by certain conductors, as if they are being manufactured by basement outfits using commercial recordings now beyond copyright date. And in general I agree radio would be much better if limited to works composed before 1946.Will Wilkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01997868915978439364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-84519600770482177932017-02-24T08:04:35.912-06:002017-02-24T08:04:35.912-06:00There are a lot of fine pre-1946 recordings out th...There are a lot of fine pre-1946 recordings out there. When I mentioned Arthur Rubinstein and Segovia, that was just referencing the only ones I have on my CD shelf.<br /><br />Yes, Bulgarian folk music was investigated by Bartók and its use of unusual meters like 7 and 9 (divided asymmetrically as I recall) was influential on him. Capitalism has many positive benefits, not the least of which is its ability to lift billions of people out of the abject poverty that is the norm in human history. But capitalism and fine art always seem to have a troubled relationship. I guess it is a case of economics and aesthetics having entirely different value systems.<br /><br />Thanks for the link, Christine! I started out as a bass player, but even then I suspected that I wasn't the most important member of the band. That is, obviously, the singer. But that is an interesting little article and I wish I had put it in this week's miscellanea. However, despite the ineffable penumbra of "science", the real reason the bass is important was discovered around 300 years ago. It is important because of its role in harmony. The bass is the note the harmony is oriented around (or over).Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-89425289793441603822017-02-24T03:53:07.604-06:002017-02-24T03:53:07.604-06:00Just saw this and it made me think of you...Accord...Just saw this and it made me think of you...According to science...<br /><br />https://www.simplemost.com/bassists-important-member-band-according-science/<br /><br />A friend of mine always often uses the expression 'it's like bashing down an open door' (translation from the French) Maybe this will seem like that to you?<br />Christine Lacroixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02006109075551438090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-83960489666056197002017-02-23T19:01:53.904-06:002017-02-23T19:01:53.904-06:00Isn't Bulgarian folk music the one with quite ...Isn't Bulgarian folk music the one with quite odd metres?<br /><br />One is reminded of Bhutan, a country which banned television even into the last decade of the twentieth century. Now they have it, local languages and cultures are facing extinction. The imperialism of popular culture in action. No wonder people find a return to older forms of culture more satisfying than much of the charmless popular stuff we have now. It's like finding something you didn't know you lost.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-32784032536860772462017-02-23T13:56:48.828-06:002017-02-23T13:56:48.828-06:00I take your point (and I did fail to notice the di...I take your point (and I did fail to notice the distinction between copyright & recordings); while am adamantly refusing to go off on one of my snipe hunts there are evidently e.g. "the pre-war Polydor" recordings of Furtwaengler and the Berlin Philharmonic on three discs. [https://goo.gl/m4BEKw] <br /><br />There's at least one CD reissue on Spotify of pre-war 78 rpm recordings of pieces conducted by Carl Schuricht, that includes a bit of Bach, Offenbach, Tchaikovsky, Smetana, Grieg's Peer Gynt, first suite, and then 'Music for Orchestra' (1912) by a Rudi Stephan. Marc in Eugenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04331547981498637474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-4682450089993507772017-02-23T12:23:55.480-06:002017-02-23T12:23:55.480-06:00The radio stations are apparently not restricted t...The radio stations are apparently not restricted to recordings before 1946, just works copyright before then. There are two different kinds of rights, authorial and mechanical? I may be forgetting the terms. But wow, if I could only listen to pre 46 recordings that would eliminate virtually everything except some Arthur Rubinstein and Andres Segovia!<br /><br />Mind you, there are worse fates!Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-51810963357928495352017-02-23T11:44:57.524-06:002017-02-23T11:44:57.524-06:00Hmm. I didn't proof that as I ought to done. A...Hmm. I didn't proof that as I ought to done. And think of who we wouldn't have to listen to! Marc in Eugenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04331547981498637474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-53835554693027674512017-02-23T10:35:05.339-06:002017-02-23T10:35:05.339-06:00It would be interesting to see what we could liste...It would be interesting to see what we could listen to, of classical music, if we had available only pre-'46 recordings. Hmm. And think of who we wouldn't have to listen!Marc in Eugenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04331547981498637474noreply@blogger.com