006: How Does A Canon Form?
Update: 2018-10-10
Description
Felicia and Grace talk about how artistic canons form, how art progresses, and how cultural periods are defined. It's a long, meandering walk through art and music history.
Show Notes
- Wikipedia: Western canon
- Wikipedia: Musical repertoire
- YouTube: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons (complete)
- Wikipedia: Johann Sebastian Bach
- Wikipedia: Baroque
- Wikipedia: Renaissance
- Wikipedia: French Revolution
- YouTube: John Williams’ Imperial March, by the Prague Film Orchestra
- YouTube: Video Games Live at Gamescom 2017
- Wikipedia: Gesamtkunstwerk
- Wikipedia: Jazz standard
- Wikipedia: The Rite of Spring by Stravinsky
- Wikipedia: Art movement
- Wikipedia: Ludwig van Beethoven
- YouTube: Beethoven’s Piano Sonato No. 2 in A major by Daniel Barenboim — an example of how early Beethoven sounds like Mozart
- Wikipedia: Lieder tradition
- Wikipedia: Great man theory
- Wikipedia: German romanticism
- Wikipedia: Felix Mendelssohn
- Felix Mendelssohn: Reviving the Works of J.S. Bach
- Wikipedia: Hungry Ghost Festival (aka “Seventh Month”)
- YouTube: Göteborgs Symfoniker, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, plays Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, 1st movement
- Wikipedia: BBC Proms
- Wikipedia: Also Sprach Zarathustra
- YouTube: 2001: A Space Odyssey Opening Scene featuring the iconic theme from Also Sprach Zarathustra
- Wikipedia: Crazy Rich Asians (film)
- Wikipedia: Paul Klee
- Fondation Beyeler: Paul Klee exhibition
- Wikipedia: Avant-garde
- Quartz on the Yamaha Venova
- Wikipedia: Hulusi
- Wikipedia: Natural horn
- Wikipedia: Saxophone
- LA Times explains why the saxophone hasn’t found a home in the orchestra
- Wikipedia: Jan van Eyck
- Museo del Prado: Collection
- Wikipedia: International Klein Blue
- Wikipedia: Vantablack
- Wikipedia: Computer-generated imagery
- Wikipedia: Cinéma vérité
- Wikipedia: Sound film
- Wikipedia: En plein air
- Wikipedia: Pointillism
- For pointillism in music, see Wikipedia: Punctualism
Aftershow
- Wikipedia: Sackbut
- Wikipedia: Bassoon > Etymology
- Wagner tuba
- Wikipedia: Lindwurm
- Wikipedia: Lindt & Sprüngli
- Wikipedia: Dulcian — predecessor of the bassoon
- Wikipedia: Shawm
- YouTube: Schalmeien Kapelle Freiburg, aka the “orchestra of the many-headed oboe”, performing in Freiburg’s old city
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