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Top Ten Spookiest Classical Pieces
Perhaps Iâm feeling macabre, but tonight Iâm digging out my favorite spooky classical pieces and listening to them. So I thought putting together a top ten list of these would be fun while I drink my scotch. Note: These are not really in any particular order. I love them all.
1. Beethoven: Piano Trio in D major, op. 70 no. 1, âGhostâ - 2nd movement. Rattling of chains, shrieking of spirits; the nickname of this trio fits it well. The first and third movements are good as well, but only the second movement is really spooky. 2. Schubert: Der Leiermann (from Winterreise). A heartbroken young man sings about the hurdy-gurdy, an outcast who sits just outside the village and plays his instrument while dogs snarl at him and people ignore him. Particularly chilling is that this is the last song of an hour-long cycle, and it drones on without clear resolution, ending with the line: âStrange old man, should I go with you? Will you accompany my songs on your hurdy-gurdy?â 3. Mussorgsky: Night On Bald Mountain. You may know this one from Disneyâs Fantasia, which is featured during the Witchesâ Sabbath sequence. 4. Schubert: Der Erlkönig. Based on a poem by Goethe, this song tells the chilling story of a father and his ailing child riding through the woods on horseback, while a malicious spirit tries to lure the boy away, unseen and unheard by the father. 5. Saint-Saens: Danse Macabre. Death plays his fiddle in the cemetery, rousing all the skeletons from their graves and dancing with them until they have to slink back at the first light of dawn. 6. Brahms: Ballade in D minor, op. 10 no. 1, âEdward.â Based on a Scottish ballade, the story is of a mother who knows that her son has murdered his father - she just wants to hear him say it himself. 7. Shostakovich: Viola Sonata. Shostakovich composed during the height of Soviet censorship, and his music almost always has a hunted, almost panicked feel to it. He composed this viola sonata just a month before his death. 8. Shostakovich: String Quartet no. 8 in C minor, op. 110. Between the frenzy of the second movement and the insistent âknocking on the doorâ of the fourth, this quartet can really put you on edge. What makes this music even freakier is Shostakovichâs musical signature (D E-flat C B) throughout the work. 9. Mussorgsky: The Hut of Baba Yaga the Witch (from Pictures at an Exhibition). This one always sounds like Baba Yagaâs âHut On Chickenâs Legsâ is chasing me through the woods, but that might just be my wild imagination. 10. Scriabin: Piano Sonata no. 9, âBlack Mass.â Some of the directions that Scriabin writes in the score are âmysteriously murmuringâ, and âwith a sweetness that becomes increasingly poisonous,â which is a pretty apt description for much of this work. It begins mysteriously, then builds in tension until it all explodes in some kind of orgiastic climax. It ends just as enigmatically as it begins.
When somebody in the early music survey explains, at length, how âmajor keys are happy and minor keys are sadâ
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The duck of creativity. I waited so long for it.
Things that I learned at the Schubert Geburtshaus: Franz Peter Schubert could feasibly punch me in the face and I would thank him.
Only he wasnât tall enough to punch you in the face. He would punch you in the kneecap.
big band voicings (as used by sammy nestico and the count basie orchestra), from rayburn wrightâs 1982 book âinside the scoreâ.
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Tchaikovsky: *tried to commit suicide*
Chopin: *was depressed*
Berlioz: *was depressed*
Bruckner: *was depressed*
Rachmaninov: *was depressed*
Schumann: *went insane*
Scriabin: *went insane*
Smetana: *went insane*
Hugo wolf: *went insane and was suicidal*
me: yeah being a composer sounds fun
composers: a summary
bach: I FKN HATE PARALLEL FIFTHS
vivaldi: 3 billion concertos hhaha
cpe bach: who am i
mozart: sunshine and smiles
haydn: i basically invented every single genre lol
beethoven: ANGST ANGST ANGST and triplets and going deaf
chopin: my soUL
paganini: hahhaha noobs
liszt: AHAHAHHAHA noobs
alkan: fck ur fingers lol
brahms: cLARA
schubert: im a mushroom
wagner: have a twenty year long opera lol and leitmotifs
tchaikovsky: boom boom cannons
rachmaninoff: HANDS
debussy: sevenths and modes and whole tones awww yiss
ravel: bitch please ninths elevenths quadrillionths
holst: who needs stringed instruments ha anD I HATE THE PLANETS
prokofiev: lol get out of my way conventional tonality i will modulate in one measure to f double fuckflat minor and stay there for a page
shostakovich: anGST ANGST ANGST FUCK YOU STALIN
cage:
reich: rrrrererreeepepeepeppppeeeaaaeaeaeaeeaaaatattatttt
stravinsky: da da da da da DA da da
schoenberg: (/79jjsOO##jksi&@'
satie: im funny
mahler:*singing* I'VE GOT THE WHOOOOLE WORLD, IN MY SCORES
Page 120 of âConversations with Igor Stravinskyâ by Robert Craft. Love those glyphs.
a compilation of some of my favourite composer quotes:
âToo many pieces of music finish too long after the end.â Â - Igor Stravinsky
âI am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.â - Edvard GriegÂ
âNever look at the trombones. It only encourages them.â - Richard Strauss
âHeâd be better off shovelling snow than scribbling on manuscript paper.â - Richard Strauss on Schoenberg
âI liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.â - Ludvig van Beethoven
âI have written a chorale both sober and suitable. In it I have put everything I know about boredom. I dedicate this to those who do not like me.â - Erik Satie
â Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.â -Â Gioacchino Rossini
âWhat a good thing this isnât music.â - Gioacchino Rossini on Berliozâs Symphonie FantastiqueÂ
âOh how wonderful, really wonderful opera would be if there were no singers!â -Â Gioacchino Rossini
âIn opera there is always too much singing.â - Claude Debussy
âBring me coffee before I turn into a goat!â - Johann Sebastian Bach
âListening to the 5th Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.â - Aaron CoplandÂ
âThe audience expected something big, something colossal, but they were served instead with some agitated water in a saucer.â - Louis Schnieder on Debussyâs La Mer
âHe gives me the impression of being a spoilt child.â - Clara Schumann on LisztÂ
âWhat a giftless bastard!â - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky on Brahms
âHandel is only fourth rate. He is not even interesting.â - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
âBach on the wrong notesâ -Â Sergei Prokofiev on StravinskyÂ
And, saving the best for lastâŠ
âLick my ass up and downâ -Wolfgang Amadeus MozartÂ
Feel free to add more! (Also please donât think that I agree with all of these, I am a huge fan of Symphonie Fantastique and La Mer!!)
Stay sassy my friends..
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