{"id":1785,"date":"2012-07-27T14:54:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T21:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=1785"},"modified":"2012-07-27T14:54:18","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T21:54:18","slug":"classical-music-video-no-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2012\/07\/classical-music-video-no-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Classical music video no. 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I mentioned composer Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997); today&#8217;s video is of the Bang-on-a-Can All-Stars playing one of his works. &#8220;Study 3a&#8221; was originally written for player piano, and was not playable by a human pianist. This transcription, playable by humans, divides up the music among several musicians playing piano, electric guitar, clarinet, sax, cello, bass, and percussion.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another example of music that defies the boundaries of musical genre. Is it jazz? classical? or what? Nancarrow had played jazz when he was young, before studying &#8220;classical&#8221; music with Walter Piston, Roger Sessions, etc. This piece is obviously influenced by classical music of the mid-twentieth century, but check out that groovy boogie-woogie left hand on the piano that just gets under your skin and makes you want to dance.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oTlGnhGYXHw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re curious what the original work sounded like, <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/pp2dWEYRzKY\">here&#8217;s a player piano rendition on Youtube<\/a>. Me, I like the human-performed version better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I mentioned composer Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997); today&#8217;s video is of the Bang-on-a-Can All-Stars playing one of his works. &#8220;Study 3a&#8221; was originally written for player piano, and was not playable by a human pianist. This transcription, playable by humans, divides up the music among several musicians playing piano, electric guitar, clarinet, sax, cello, bass, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2012\/07\/classical-music-video-no-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Classical music video no. 5&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[156,159],"class_list":["post-1785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musical-arts","tag-bang-on-a-can","tag-conlon-nancarrow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1785"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1810,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions\/1810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}