前段时间在图书馆发现一本书叫 Musical Revolutions，第一章介绍了 music notation的历史，还挺有意思的～有机会写个小总结～

书里提到一个作品还蛮好玩，是 David Del Tredici的The Mouse’s Tale. 这个作品的曲谱复制了 Lewis Carroll的诗 The Mouse’s Tale 的“样子”🤣🤣🤣（见下一条）

可以在这里听 The Mouse’s Tale：https://www.daviddeltredici.com/works/adventures-underground/ 大约12分左右（？）。另外 David Del Tredici写了一系列的爱丽丝梦游仙境 inspired的work，这个网页做了简要的介绍～

#fun #contemporary

今天我们在这里纪念一位群友——圈姐。圈姐非常地坚强勇敢，然而残酷的病魔还是在前天夺去了她年轻的生命。她曾经在群里分享过一段她演奏的 Bach 的 BWV 1001，愿天堂再无病痛折磨🙏

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MRKy3kX8XUM

谭盾2020 Buddha Passion 《慈悲颂》选段

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr-4dMN-SRs

Mozart #requiem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Moc4d4hR_uo&t=127s

Beim Schlafengehen 选自Richard Strauss 的last four songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyXf587mDLY

Finale from Mahler symphony no. 2 Resurrection, 复活 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_2EWwxr5nU

经历了上周的事情心情有些沉重，有些不知道可以分享些什么内容。决定开辟一个比较casual的tag #今天我在听什么 restart一下吧🙏也欢迎大家分享自己在听的曲子～

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAjq2fAHcfw

#今天我在听什么 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJBv3sOiZjA
#frenchComposers #piano

#今天我在听什么
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkVFq1I7sik
#dvorak #symphony

#今天我在听什么 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8FaPBEN8Uk

第三十二期：Music Atoms - A Study of Interval

概要
好久没有更新YPC系列啦～说起理由真的是很搞笑但又很真实：因为我家电视看bilibili不是很方便！(Please don’t judge me 😳) Anyway，趁着出门在外的日子把这个系列再更新起来吧～

这一期是比较“理论”的一期，讲的是 interval (音程）这个概念。Bernstein说一个音符不能称之为音乐，至少需要两个音符，才能组成音乐性的关系，而随着音符的增多，音乐便从这些“关系”中诞生。在这里他又开展了他的类比大法：一个音符只能当作是一个电子或一个质子，无法单独存在，而至少需要再来一个才能组成最基础的原子，再结合一下组成分子，组成物质。而这至少两个音符组成的关系被称作 interval （音程）。接下来，Bernstein 用尺子为道具具体介绍了音程的概念，介绍了 inversion, Melodic (horizontal) interval, Harmonic (vertical) interval 等诸多概念，并让现场观众演唱了各种音程。最后Bernstein用两首曲目介绍了音程在作曲中的应用。第一首是 Brahms 的 Symphony No.4 第一乐章，其主题是由 3rd 和 6th （为 3rd 的 inversion）组成，并将 3rd 贯穿全曲。第二首介绍的曲目是 Vaughan Williams 的 Symphony No.4 的最后一个乐章。这首 Symphony 在前三个乐章里各种利用 minor 2nd，听起来非常刺激，而在最后一个乐章的 finale 终于出现了 major 2nd～ 虽然 major 2nd在各种音程中也算是不和谐的了，但是在那么多 minor 2nd 的铺垫下，简直就是迎来了一片曙光～ Bernstein 总结非常精辟，”There you have the real magic of intervals: in the hands of a composer who's a genius, a modest, humble little major second can have a mountainous majesty.”

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One simple note all by itself is not music — not even a single molecule of music, not even an atom. It's more like a proton or an electron, which, as you know, is meaningless all by itself; you need at least one of each — at least two atomic particles — to create an atom. And in exactly the same way you need at least two notes before you can begin to have an atom of music. Because with that one lonely note, isolated, nothing is happening, it's just floating in space. But once you have two notes [FLUTE] you suddenly feel a relationship between them, like an electrical tension. There's already the beginning of a musical meaning. And with three notes, that meaning increases and before you know it, [BLUE DANUBE]. You see what happened: those musical protons and electrons —the separate notes that is — have combined together forming atoms, which then combined into molecules, which finally combined into recognizable matter, like this wood or this hair, or that Blue Danube Waltz.

Now obviously, major seconds aren't all that wide-open compared to fourths for instance, or fifths which are really wide open; but compared to the scrunchy little minor seconds, which we've been hearing in every conceivable form for three whole movements, this major second seems like the gates of Heaven itself. And there you have the real magic of intervals: in the hands of a composer who's a genius, a modest, humble little major second can have a mountainous majesty.

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1sE411a7rz/

曲目
1. Wagner - Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin
2. Brahms - Symphony No.4
3. Vaughan Williams - Symphony No.4

#YPC

#今天我在听什么 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nkS8eiP-XH_Kczs2T2Bhg6svv8PV0I3Nc

第三十三期: The Sound of an Orchestra

概要
这一期虽然叫《管弦乐团之声》，其实说的是“作曲家之声”。伯恩斯坦认为管弦乐团的工作是将作曲家心中的音响带给大家，而不是表达自己的个性。节目开场先用一种非常甜腻的手法演奏了 Haydn 的 Symphony No.88 （报幕还拿非常花的花体写标题 😂），然后伯恩斯坦深入分析了他们做错了什么：包括过多的揉弦，散漫的节奏，过于极端的表达，还有过大的乐团等等，并当场请走了一堆乐手😆 最后又以比较正常的 Haydn 的风格演奏完了这首曲子。接下来他让各种乐器展现了一下他们如何演绎不同作曲家的声音，先是以 Brahms 和 Debussy 为例，分别代表德式和法式的音响，再是以 Stravinsky, Gershwin 和 Copland 为例，说明即使是现代的音乐，管弦乐团也需要通过不同的技巧诠释出作曲家的声音。

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The sound of a great orchestra is one that can change, at will from one composer's style to another, from Haydn to Brahms to Debussy to Stravinsky. Anything else is a sin of pride.

So where does that leave us with this so-called "sound of an orchestra?" Nowhere. There's no such thing—or at least, there shouldn't be. All that matters is the sound of the composer.

曲目
1. Haydn - Symphony No.88 Largo
2. Beethoven - Symphony No.5
3. Beethoven - Symphony No.7
4. Brahms - Symphony No.1
5. Debussy - Ibéria
6. Stravinsky - "Royal March” from The Story of a Soldier
7. Gershwin - An American in Paris
8. Copland - Rodeo

#YPC
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1JQ4y1M7sz

第三十四期：A Birthday Tribute to Shostakovich

概要
这一期是给肖斯塔科维奇庆生，节目播出的年份他刚要60岁。伯恩斯坦提到了他1959年和纽约爱乐团一起去俄国和肖斯塔科维奇见面的经历。肖斯塔科维奇给他的印象是一个非常内向的人，虽然他的音乐一点都不害羞，反而是非常有力量。这期节目伯恩斯坦以肖七开场，并非常详细的介绍了肖九的各个乐章，讲其中的诸多幽默，的确很有生日派对的氛围😂

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When the New York Philharmonic and I visited Russia, back in 1959, I had the pleasure and privilege of meeting Shostakovich. And I had an impression of a very reserved man, speaking very little, a bit nervous, and very shy. I suspect that that is the true nature of the man, but you'd never know it from hearing his music. As a composer he has a great deal to say, serious or light, whatever it happens to be, and he says it with enormous confidence, ease, and boldness. I suppose that's one of the most fascinating things about artists—how different they can be, as people, from the art they create. The most sure-handed painter may be very insecure in his daily life; the greatest writer may have trouble spelling the simplest words; the most intelligent physicist may be incapable of adding up an ordinary grocery bill.

曲目
1. Shostakovich - Symphony No.7
2. Shostakovich - Symphony No.9

#YPC
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1EJ411a7CA

分享一首上周去 BSO 听到的曲目（lol转眼一周就过去了）：George Enescu 的 Romanian Rhapsody in A, Opus II, No.1. 之前我完全没有听说过这位作曲家，但是 BSO 的 program notes 里介绍他超厉害：小提琴，钢琴，指挥，作曲，教学样样精通。里面还提到有一晚的演奏会上，小提琴中提琴大提琴他全都拉了个遍🤯

说回这首曲子，最先开创Rhapsody先河的就是大家都耳熟能详的李斯特的 Hungarian Rhapsodies了～ rhapsody 这个词来自于希腊语的 rhaposode，由rhaptein （意为缝补）和 odein （意为歌唱）组成，所以可以理解为把几首歌缝合在一起。从 Hungarian Rhaposodies 开始，这个形制就主要是展示各种民间音乐和传统音乐～在这首 Romanian Rhapsodies 里 Enescu 使用了很多罗马尼亚的民间音乐旋律，但又含有德式浪漫主义元素和法式印象派元素。总体来说是一个听起来非常欢快，但又很丰富的作品～

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfTiDvd2g1I

ref:
BSO program notes: https://www.bso.org/works/romanian-rhapsody-no-1