Glenn Gould on The Idea of North, Fugues, and Webern

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Glenn Gould discusses his radio documentary 'The Idea of North' -- drawing comparisons to Verdi's Falstaff, fugue writing, and Webern's tone rows -- and plays Webern's piano Variations (Opus 27). With Bruno Monsaingeon.

I highly recommend trying out GG's multi-input listening technique next time you are in a restaurant or other such environment -- it's very fun to try to use just one's own ears to turn the various surrounding sounds (multiple conversations, television, etc) into a sort of musical texture.

Channel: Music
Uploaded: July 6, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Author: p0lyph0ny

Length: 00:08:53
Rating: 5.00
Views: 3350

Tags: glenn gould radio idea of north experimental serialism twelve tone webern

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Video Comments:
ijuh22 (November 12, 2008 at 10:01 pm)
aaaahhhhh stop talking i want to hear the piece
chopin8826 (September 28, 2008 at 2:41 am)
hmmm.... the begining was stupid Berg is the greatest atonal composer and stauckhaisen is terrible
scotjamiesonpiano (August 11, 2008 at 9:13 pm)
Gould and Webern : okay, we have left planet earth for an abduction by aliens of the superior kind. Actually pretty wonderful . . . thank you for a fascinating video.
EricStoic (August 1, 2008 at 9:29 am)
itskindof s p a r s e inhereisntit
KarlAE (July 20, 2008 at 1:58 am)
Thank you for this upload. Of most interesting.