The Chord That Ended Classical Music
How did classical music end? And what was the start of modern music? Some theorists point to Igor Stravinsky's "The Rite Of Spring", and a strange chord in its introduction.
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I see from other discussions of the work that the female dancers are "young girls" as you said, but I suspect that was the terminology of the time, and we would say "young women" today (ie, not minor children/girls.)
The other day, I randomly stumbled across "The Brave One" with Jodie Foster, and when at the end Sarah McLachlan's "Answer" played, I was immediately brought back to this post about how "classical" (easy appreciable, from an aesthetic perspective) music, and music that follows the "bring it back home" pattern helps people sort prior experiences into an overall tapestry of experiences that "makes sense" -- whereas if the movie had ended up with an entirely different outcome (like a dissonant chord), I assume audiences would have found that much less appealing. And it's kind of funny that the makers chose a song called "Answer" which speaks about balance and "washing one's mind" of certain memories. Every dissonance is doable so long as I know that I will return home from a bad dream in the end... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6pQcpFnXOI
I discovered your videos on YouTube and recently joined your Patreon. Amazing stuff! I’m an aspiring writer, and your analysis of storytelling has really been inspiring and helpful. Please keep it up! Ok, I have to point out one tiny mistake in this video, which has nothing to do with music… you put your home plate in the baseball analogy upside down 😉
I like variety of analysis from Star Wars to paintings to Star Trek to Classical Music to… who knows what’s next. You always keep me on my toes. Love it!
While I of course enjoy your film and television videos, it was your video way back on re: the famous Matrix chords that reeled me in. In fact, this video helped me, for the first time, consciously connected all those specific innovators—Stravinsky, Cage, Schoenberg—to Davis' score, from the bi-tonalities, to the prepared pianos, and to the 12 tone *matrices* respectively. Anyway, I share your taste for music that highlights unresolved dissonance, and I could watch your videos on this all day. Good stuff. 👍
Hey Brian, thanks for watching. Also, cool that it was the Matrix Chord video that brought you here! I do want to make more videos like that.
I'm a simple "girl": I hear a 4/4 beat music, I dance. To say I'm gonna need to watch this video a bunch of times 😅
That's all you need!!
I am just finishing up an introduction to music class, and I was excited to know some of those music words you were saying! Amazing video as always.
Very cool, glad this was of interest. I'm never sure how much music theory language I should use in a video like this.