Penderecki: Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
Why Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange recommends it
Music Stack Exchange users link it as a concrete example of radical dissonance and of the avant-garde orchestral style that questions about music theory and film scoring keep circling back to.
Recommended by 0 people across 0 different months, 2018 to 2020.
What it is
A recording of Krzysztof Penderecki's 1960 string orchestra piece Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima, performed by the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Antoni Wit. It is a score-less audio upload of the work, known for its tone clusters, glissandi and extended string techniques.
Cited in 1 Wikipedia article, including Hibakusha.
What people said
Cites S. Imp · 2018-04 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “E major and A minor together are not in scale?”
@Acidic Firstly, music is subjective, and the rules, which are based on consensus and convention over centuries, are made to be broken [this video] . Art is about action and reaction and we'd all be bored to death if only the major scales and Gregorian chants were allowed. If you were to read the wikipedia article on minor scales that I linked, you'd see it mentions leading tones [LINK] . Leading tones are often the sweet spots in a scale that yearn to resolve to another tone.
Cites Pyromonk · 2019-07 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “How is dissonance created?”
Sounds like regular funk to me with some effects on one of the guitars. If you want to hear dissonant music, listen to Arab on Radar [LINK] , Penderecki [this video] or Xenakis [LINK] . This or the other way 'round, "dissonance" is a pretty subjective term, and it's changed over the years. Stravinsky [LINK] 's earlier works were considered "dissonant" by the public when they were released but do not sound dissonant to the average modern listener. Under "traditional" music theory, dissonances are defined as certain pitch/frequency distances between 2 or more notes played at the same time or in quick succession. Those "rules" have been broken time and again in the last ~100-150 years, as the human
Cites John · 2020-03 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “Name of orchestral styles of Krzysztof Penderecki and Elliot Goldenthal”
I just came across Krzysztof Penderecki's Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima [this video] after learning of his death this morning. The orchestral style is much like that heard in Elliot Goldenthal's score for Alien 3 [LINK] ; only the first piece I mentioned is a bit more abstract or "dryer". Goldenthal's score has some exceptionally intricate parts, especially Adagio. What is the name of this (or these, relatively) style and what are some good examples of those styles?