Ragtime#4: Loose Canon
from Ragtime Hosted by Benjamin Martin
The sprawling, thought-provoking, and highly entertaining fourth episode of Ragtime with the brilliant Peter de Jager and renowned scholar and performer Peter Tregear. 0’00 - Intro 3’29 - EXCERPT: Faust Symphony (Liszt) 5’34 - Is there an evolving principle at work leading to serialism? 17’12 - EXCERPT: Moro Lasso al Mio Duolo (Gesualdo) 18’52 - Are we losing receptivity to dissonances past? 23’54 - Ross Duffin and Equal Temperament 28’38 - Written versus oral traditions 30’38 - EXCERPT: Le Sacre (Stravinsky) 31’35 - How might Le Sacre have sounded to Mozart? 33’36 - Wagner’s Rheingold 35’42 - Octatonic versus bitonal 37’52 - EXCERPT: Harry Partch 39’53 - The Tri-tone 44’30 - Von Helmholtz’s findings 46’40 - EXCERPT: Etude Op.10#4 (Chopin) 47’43 - Major = happy, minor = sad? 55’46 - Derryck Cooke 57’02 - Eastern music (Arabic, Chinese, Javanese) 1:00’31 - Opening Pandora’s box 1:03’20 - EXCERPT: Cello Suite #1 (Bach) 1:05’08 - Plato on the effects of modes 1:09’37 - EXCERPT: Cantata Op.32 (Webern) 1:10’42 - Thought-experiment: reorganising the genesis; substituting 9th-10th century Organum with Serialism. 1:18’34 - Said and Orientalism. 1:20’40 - A Taruskin tale
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The sprawling, thought-provoking, and highly entertaining fourth episode of Ragtime with the brilliant Peter de Jager and renowned scholar and performer Peter Tregear. 0’00 - Intro 3’29 - EXCERPT: Faust Symphony (Liszt) 5’34 - Is there an evolving principle at work leading to serialism? 17’12 - EXCERPT: Moro Lasso al Mio Duolo (Gesualdo) 18’52 - Are we losing receptivity to dissonances past? 23’54 - Ross Duffin and Equal Temperament 28’38 - Written versus oral traditions 30’38 - EXCERPT: Le S...
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