NTT: The language is throwing me (Will) for a loop. The "sht" starts to the words sound awfully German, but I can't make out a single recognizable word. The music sounds like it could be Shostakovich, but I can't say I recognize the language as Russian either. (I'm much less familiar with Russian, so it's not a given that I would.)
The music — probably an art song — favors tritones, and I think has a late 19th century primitivist sound to it. I'm going to make my bucket this: Mussorgsky, Janacek, Shostakovich. I have to admit, I'll be pretty embarrassed if it turns out to be German.
This is German, all right (even though, even as a native speaker I can only understand half the words ... call it Soprano Syndrome). Based on the very late romantic, borderline tonal feel of this, I am going to go out on a limb and say that this is an early work of one of the serial-music guys: Webern, Berg, or Schoenberg.
NTT: I’m going to assume it’s German just to be in opposition to Will. But I really have no idea where to go with that, so I’ll suggest a couple of composers whose output I don’t really know so well, and thus they leave open the possibility they had phases that are like this: Orff, Hindemith….I dunno, did Schoenberg do some weird (for him) Lieder?
NTT: The language is throwing me (Will) for a loop. The "sht" starts to the words sound awfully German, but I can't make out a single recognizable word. The music sounds like it could be Shostakovich, but I can't say I recognize the language as Russian either. (I'm much less familiar with Russian, so it's not a given that I would.)
The music — probably an art song — favors tritones, and I think has a late 19th century primitivist sound to it. I'm going to make my bucket this: Mussorgsky, Janacek, Shostakovich. I have to admit, I'll be pretty embarrassed if it turns out to be German.
This is German, all right (even though, even as a native speaker I can only understand half the words ... call it Soprano Syndrome). Based on the very late romantic, borderline tonal feel of this, I am going to go out on a limb and say that this is an early work of one of the serial-music guys: Webern, Berg, or Schoenberg.
NTT: Not having much insight as to the language, I’m going to go some with sort of Eastern European and guess Bartok or Kodály.
NTT: I’m going to assume it’s German just to be in opposition to Will. But I really have no idea where to go with that, so I’ll suggest a couple of composers whose output I don’t really know so well, and thus they leave open the possibility they had phases that are like this: Orff, Hindemith….I dunno, did Schoenberg do some weird (for him) Lieder?