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October 27, 2009
Halloween Music
Just in time for All Hallow's Eve, our resident Scare Queen (and senior classical music analyst) Michelle Alexander looks at some of the scariest music ever written, ranging from the ominous organ music of Bach and Beethoven through Liszt and then into 20th Century composers like George Crumb and Gyorgy Ligeti. She thrusts her hands into the muck of musical fright and dredges up the dissonance and challenged expectations that make for aural horror. (9 mins.)Here's the link to Haunt Your House, the Halloween mixtape created by Michelle Alexander and Russell Johnson.
MUSICAL TERMS INCLUDED IN THIS PODCAST
| Toccata | Diminished chord | Dissonance | Siren |
| Fugue | Tonality | Pastoral | Chromatic |
| Atonal | Orchestral suite | Sturm und Drang | Crescendo |
| Key | Score | Whole-tone scale | Minor key |
Here's another link to Haunt Your House, that Halloween mixtape lovingly assembled by Michelle Alexander and Russell Johnson.
SCARY HUNCHBACK ORGAN
by Johann Sebastian Bach |
CREEPING ATONAL DECAY
by Gyorgy Ligeti |
THUNDER AND LIGHTNING, VERY VERY FRIGHTENING ME
by Ludwig van Beethoven |
HELLISHLY VIOLENT PIANO
by Franz Liszt |
PROTO-DEATHSTAR WAR MUSIC
by Gustav Holst |
"TERRIFYING THINGS WERE IN THE AIR"
by George Crumb |
Comments
All of these lessons would be better if you could develop them so that we, the listener, could at least pause them. Also, having to re-listen to the whole thing if we missed a point. It's very frustrating.
Posted by: me at November 12, 2009 08:24 AM
