3 posts tagged “music”
Most unlikely Bowie cover?
Big in Japan, apparently.
A great lost Buzzcocks track from the Devoto era.
Iva Bittova rocks out!
David Shire's best score, no contest. The movie's pretty great too.
For the score, David Shire came up with a stroke of genius. He wanted to do some kind of funk/jazz/big band, but wanted a way of making it dissonant and powerful -- not too light, but not too random. So for his melodic materials he utilized the 12-tone method of composition, a technique devised by Arnold Schoenberg in the early 20th century in which you make a theme by using all 12 pitches in a specific order, and then create other themes by playing that "row" backwards, upside-down, backwards and upside-down, or transposed. Shire ended up with a monster two-note bass line with these 12-tone themes running on top.
Here it is. One of the most intense versions of Beethoven's last piano sonata that I know. Richter's is up there, but I think this one is a little more psychologically wracked. Sofronitsky was an addict (opium, I think), and it eventually killed him.
