A music blog written by Rich Brown
Decoding the layers of meaning in Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is no small task. Strauss works with a late Romantic music language that is very rich harmonically, and makes use of many of the innovations of Richard Wagner’s music dramas. Almost immediately after the premiere, Strauss’s tone poem was being broken down in... Continue Reading →
In my conception of Good Music for this blog, one of the things I encouraged my readers to do, was to listen to each piece of music on its own terms, and not ask the music to be anything it wasn’t trying to be. There has been much debate about what Also Sprach Zarathustra is... Continue Reading →
Two of the most famous minutes of music in the public consciousness has to be the opening theme to the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. This movie is one of the masterpieces from the influential director Stanley Kubrick, with a screenplay written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. In creating the screenplay, they drew on... Continue Reading →
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