Mountain Suite: I. Prelude
Budapest Chamber Orchestra & Peter Pejtsik
Performed By
Budapest Chamber Orchestra & Peter Pejtsik
Album UPC
888174733388
CD Baby Track ID
TR0000312696
Label
Budapest Chamber Orchestra
Released
2014-04-22
BPM
145
Rated
0
ISRC
uscgj1479103
Year
2014
Spotify Plays
32
Writers
Writer
Ezra Daniel Donner
Pub Co
Sol Fa Music
Composer
Ezra Daniel Donner
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Rights Controlled
Master and Publishing Grant
Rights
One-Stop: Master + 100% Pub Grant
Original/Cover/Public Domain
original
Country
United States - Indiana
Description
Soothing, elegant, earthy instrumental music for a quiet Sunday afternoon.
Notes
I feel kind of guilty saying this as an "educated" composer and musician. But when I was in college, I wasn’t actually a very good music theory student.
We were studying harmony and voice-leading of Western Classical music, as thousands of music students have done across many diverse national boundaries and eras. But I wanted to be a great composer and create my own original musical language, with new chords, original rhythms, and inventive musical forms.
So, instead of doing my theory homework, I went to the music library and voraciously checked out recordings of all the 20th and 21st Century music I could find. And not just concert art music—rock ‘n’ roll, Jazz, pop, and so-called “world” music. One of the fateful things I got was a recording of traditional American fiddle music.
I remember listening with amazement and wonder to this recording. Here was a rich and sophisticated musical tradition that was part of the broader sphere of Western music, but which had evolved separately from the European art music tradition. The musicians were highly trained, though not trained in the Western Classical tradition; they played with technical facility and heart and were clearly virtuoso musicians in their own tradition. It was all the more intriguing for me that this musical tradition was, in my estimation, quintessentially “American.”
It’s a well-known fact that many great composers of the past integrated so-called vernacular musical styles into their work. I do not believe that other genres of music need to “rescued” or “sanitized” by Classical composers, but rather that we as Classical composers need to access these other musical styles to enrich our own work. I am proud to acknowledge my diverse sources of musical inspiration, and I believe the best composers are those who do not ignore the rich musical traditions in their own backyard.
We were studying harmony and voice-leading of Western Classical music, as thousands of music students have done across many diverse national boundaries and eras. But I wanted to be a great composer and create my own original musical language, with new chords, original rhythms, and inventive musical forms.
So, instead of doing my theory homework, I went to the music library and voraciously checked out recordings of all the 20th and 21st Century music I could find. And not just concert art music—rock ‘n’ roll, Jazz, pop, and so-called “world” music. One of the fateful things I got was a recording of traditional American fiddle music.
I remember listening with amazement and wonder to this recording. Here was a rich and sophisticated musical tradition that was part of the broader sphere of Western music, but which had evolved separately from the European art music tradition. The musicians were highly trained, though not trained in the Western Classical tradition; they played with technical facility and heart and were clearly virtuoso musicians in their own tradition. It was all the more intriguing for me that this musical tradition was, in my estimation, quintessentially “American.”
It’s a well-known fact that many great composers of the past integrated so-called vernacular musical styles into their work. I do not believe that other genres of music need to “rescued” or “sanitized” by Classical composers, but rather that we as Classical composers need to access these other musical styles to enrich our own work. I am proud to acknowledge my diverse sources of musical inspiration, and I believe the best composers are those who do not ignore the rich musical traditions in their own backyard.
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