RESOUNDING ECHOES with Robert McCarney

Fourteen Ways to Create a Universe

Hello, good afternoon, and welcome to today's episode of Resounding Echoes. Now last week, in the context of Arnold Schoenberg's first chamber symphony, I spoke about the extensive use of the interval of a fourth, as a means of drifting away from traditional harmonic thinking and opening up new possibilities of extending or even escaping tonality. So before I go any further today, I want to focus a little on this idea of intervals ...

Listen — Robert McCarney: Fourteen Ways to Create a Universe
(Resounding Echoes)
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Resounding Echoes: Fourteen Ways to Create a Universe

Copyright © 28 July 2024 Robert McCarney,
León, Spain

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Abel Decaux: Clairs de Lune (1900-07)
Marce-André Hamelin, piano
℗ 2006 Hyperion Records Ltd

Arnold Schoenberg: Friede auf Erden (1907)
BBC Singers / Pierre Boulez

Béla Bartók: Fourteen Bagatelles (1908)
György Sándor, piano

 

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