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by Yagan Kiely
Fri Sep 25, 2009 2:59 pm
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Music? Composer? Orchestration or Composion?
Replies: 27
Views: 37420

Re: Music? Composer? Orchestration or Composion?

think there needs to be new music that reflects tonality, not the avant-garde works that have been composed in the last sixty years. The two aren't mutually exclusive. I do partly agree with you though; I think tonality does add a lot to music. Bernstein said in his Harvard lectures that avant-gard...
by Yagan Kiely
Fri Sep 18, 2009 10:04 am
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Mahler's Annotated Symphony No.1
Replies: 7
Views: 3275

Re: Mahler's Annotated Symphony No.1

That's wonderful!

Anyway to download it? The SWF I downloaded doesn't seem to work (doubted it would though).
by Yagan Kiely
Fri Sep 18, 2009 10:01 am
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Solo Endings?
Replies: 27
Views: 23741

Re: Solo Endings?

Define solo?
by Yagan Kiely
Fri Sep 18, 2009 9:59 am
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Writing Symphonies
Replies: 45
Views: 28997

Re: Writing Symphonies

A symphony is a symphony when a composer says it is, regardless of duration or scoring. My main point is this: If anything can be called a 'car', the word 'car' loses all meaning. If any piece of music can be called a 'symphony' the word 'symphony' now carries no descriptive (or otherwise) meaning ...
by Yagan Kiely
Fri Sep 18, 2009 9:45 am
Forum: IMSLP Announcements
Topic: Orchestral Parts Project
Replies: 109
Views: 101630

Re: Orchestral Parts Project

Applicants for this project are mostly superfluous now, effectively applications are closed from now.
by Yagan Kiely
Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:04 pm
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Favorite Quotes Made by Composers
Replies: 10
Views: 5348

Re: Favorite Quotes Made by Composers

So these were the three circumstances that compelled me to experiment in music: I was involved in music; I was working with turntables (then with tape-recorders); I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different... maybe salvation, liberation, is poss...
by Yagan Kiely
Sun Sep 06, 2009 11:30 am
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Music History
Replies: 3
Views: 1570

Re: Music History

Shostakovich: A Life - Laurel Fay.
and (for reference only)
Testimonu - Volkov
by Yagan Kiely
Sat Aug 29, 2009 12:02 pm
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Overrated, Overused, Overdone, underrated etc.
Replies: 97
Views: 175276

Re: Overrated, Overused, Overdone, underrated etc.

Not all forums are the same. They range from the likes of the BBC forums to the likes of 4chan, and they are managed in entirely different ways. Besides, if we were here to do what everybody does, then we should be listening to Britney Spears, as was recently suggested by one of our beloved spammer...
by Yagan Kiely
Fri Aug 28, 2009 9:42 am
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Overrated, Overused, Overdone, underrated etc.
Replies: 97
Views: 175276

Re: Overrated, Overused, Overdone, underrated etc.

What other forums do is irrelevant to us (unless you can provide a specific example where half a dozen similar threads have significantly damaged a forum or its community). We are still a forum, the same type of forum as all others. Others use this rule for a reason, to keep the forums moving smoot...
by Yagan Kiely
Thu Aug 27, 2009 5:15 pm
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Overrated, Overused, Overdone, underrated etc.
Replies: 97
Views: 175276

Re: Overrated, Overused, Overdone, underrated etc.

From my experience with several other forums, there is no way that the threads would be allowed all to be open at once. The alternative is creating a sub-forum, not completely sure if it is possible here, but if it is, I'm not willing to do that either. All threads are on the same topic: the status ...
by Yagan Kiely
Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:00 am
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Bassoon Pieces Suggestion?
Replies: 20
Views: 8880

Re: Bassoon Pieces Suggestion?

Damn…

Actually, the Mozart quartet might be an idea.
by Yagan Kiely
Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:44 am
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Bassoon Pieces Suggestion?
Replies: 20
Views: 8880

Re: Bassoon Pieces Suggestion?

No, not the Mozart. It's too cliche. Please do not do it. I love bassoon literature so here are some suggestions, but please no Mozart.
Precisely why I put the " :P"! :)
by Yagan Kiely
Tue Aug 25, 2009 2:28 pm
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Overrated, Overused, Overdone, underrated etc.
Replies: 97
Views: 175276

Re: Overrated, Overused, Overdone, underrated etc.

I've said so countless times; it isn't the word , it's the topic – and the topic is the same. There are 6 threads on the same topic, this is not allowed on any forum (well, maybe 4chan), and it is standard to close all bar one. I have, however, stickied this which is more than any other forum would ...
by Yagan Kiely
Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:07 am
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Bassoon Pieces Suggestion?
Replies: 20
Views: 8880

Re: Bassoon Pieces Suggestion?

Mozart. :P
by Yagan Kiely
Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:05 am
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Walter Piston, underrated?
Replies: 4
Views: 2488

Re: Walter Piston, underrated?

Closed see this thread.