May 8, 2021
Discussion topics/Highlights:
- Glissando demonstration (like when Rose opens her ring)
- The bountiful lineage of horse riding music
- The musical DNA of Russian Romantic composers
- What "chromatic" means in music (chromaticism, chromatic line, etc)
- Sorry in advance, there's a rough sports analogy
- Burkey's homework assignment
- The neat little reference to one of John Williams' older scores
- A comparison of the different things we (Burkey and Xanthe) notice in the music when watching a movie
- John Williams and George Lucas as trendsetters
Motifs Referenced (in order of appearance): Resistance March, Rose's theme
Where we are in the soundtrack: "Who Are You?", "The Fathiers"
Music References:
- William Tell Overture (Gioachino Rossini): https://youtu.be/j3T8-aeOrbg
- Light Cavalry Overture (Franz von Suppé): https://youtu.be/aF5nhMIyeqI
- Saber Dance (Aram Khachaturian): https://youtu.be/gqg3l3r_DRI
- Night on Bald Mountain (Modest Mussorgsky, orch. Rimsky-Korsakov): https://youtu.be/iCEDfZgDPS8
- Russlan and Ludmilla Overture (Milkhail Ivanovich Glinka): https://youtu.be/Nyx99YcHdIQ
- Ride of the Valkyries (Richard Wagner): https://youtu.be/GGU1P6lBW6Q
- The Fathiers (John Williams): https://youtu.be/lk6YaL9wg0E
- The Long Goodbye (John Williams, various versions)
- Jack Sheldon: https://youtu.be/dG0ykzh47q8
- Singer Clydie King: https://youtu.be/vU-N2BZMvj4
- The Dave Grusin Trio: https://youtu.be/NTid_tup5O0
- Irene Kral, Dave Grusin Trio: https://youtu.be/aCZvZUlNxZo
Burkey:
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