20th century classical music

Classical music for licensing in YouTube or GoogleVideo

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:03:06 -0400

If you use classical music in YouTube videos or any type of work with soundtrack, I'd like to point you to a great site for licensing classical music.

There are over 70 volumes of music in the UniqueTracks collection. There is not a lot of modern music however. Most of the music recordings are from the Baroque through the Romantic Era. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi are all represented with fine recordings. You can license a tra...

Philip Glass, the archtypical Minimalist composer

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:10:26 -0400

Here's a wonderful blog post the examines Philip Glass's career and points to an article in the NY Times where several of the Times' music critics give opinions on American Minimalism. The Times article is from August 10, 2007

The author spends a bit of time discussing Glass's 1980s album Glassworks which makes a great entry poin...

History of Minimalism in Music Composition

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:55:24 -0400

This is another very informative article on minimalist composition. This one has more of a European focus from the website komponistenforum.de.

quick excerpt...
La Monte Young’s “Composition 1960 no. 7” has been ascribed the status of being the first “minimalist” composition containing “the most famous and significant fifth in music history” (G...

Famous Minimalist Music Compositions

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:12:50 -0400

Here is a great article from the New Music Box, the online magazine of the American Music Center. It tries to define minimalism in music and describes minimalism genesis. It also provides a great list of famous minimal works

The article was written by the famous modern music writer and composer Kyle Gann.

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