Name That Tune
This week’s Name That Tune is a Maestro Will special. No real hint, but I’ll just say that this one is for all the New Music girlies out there.
As always, your goal is to provide as much accurate analysis as possible. First try to get the nationality, year, and genre, then make educated guesses about the composer and — if possible— the piece. If you know the piece immediately, send us an email at toneprose@substack.com instead of commenting so the rest of us can have fun guessing.
Last Week’s Results
Tone Prose 61
Lutosławski, Dance Preludes
This one might have been a total stumper were it not for Joey’s hint, which played to my (Will’s) particular strengths, which is to say that I am a linguistic pedant who revels in the correct pronunciation of foreign tongues (and in correcting others’ mispronunciation of said tongues).
Listener Laurie had some great suggestions: Dohnányi, Saint-Saëns, Szymanowski, Dutilleux and also offered up this video.
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Bagatelle: The Podcast
This week, Joey and I sat down for an on-mic conversation about the set of bagatelles I composed for him. Give it a listen:
You can hear the full piece here:
Tone Praise
Nico Gutierrez, Amo
I (Will) attended a Día de Muertos choral concert this past weekend and this piece was far-and-away the standout work on the program. Gorgeous music and a cool text:
Todo, todos, se han ido
Solo me acompañan mis recuerdos
Con los cuales unos ratos yo lloro
Y en ocasiones logro a sonreir
Los amo
– Mariano Melendro SernaEverything, everyone, has left
I am accompanied only by my memories
With which sometimes I cry
And on occasion I manage to smile
I love them
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Will and Joey -
I enjoyed your podcast. It popped into my alerts and I had just finished it when the Tone Prose came out announcing it.
I particularly liked #6 and #10. But #8, the Waltz, is the one that captivated me. Love that one!
NTT: This made me think of György Ligeti, simply because of his piece for the 100 Metromomes that go in and out of phase.
Probably not him, based on the non-clue clue. So I'll also throw in Kaija Saariaho.
And Hildur Guðnadóttir, thinking back to some of her soundtrack for Chernobyl.