Iannis Xenakis - Pithoprakta (w/ graphical score)
Why Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange recommends it
Music Stack Exchange answerers and commenters link it as a striking example of dissonant, non-harmonic modern music when discussing dissonance, cadences and unconventional notation.
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What it is
A performance recording of Iannis Xenakis's 1955-56 orchestral piece Pithoprakta, played by the Luxembourg Philharmonic under Arturo Tamayo, shown with a graphical score made by the uploader. The score visualises the dense, statistically composed string glissandi and percussive textures as they play.
What people said
Cites user19146 · 2018-06 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “Does every phrase in music end with a cadence?”
How to you even define "Cadence" in musical styles that don't use harmony? For example classical Indian music, or [LINK] or [this video] or [LINK] (well, I suppose it does have a cadence at the end!).
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 [LINK] or Xenakis [this video] . 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 Pyromonk · 2019-09 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “Are there objective criteria for classifying consonance v. dissonance?”
@leftaroundabout, to me it does sound extremely consonant in comparison to later works by other composers, like Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima [LINK] and Pithoprakta [this video] . Not to mention noise rock and no wave giants like Arab on Radar [LINK] and U.S. Maple [LINK] .
Cites Shev · 2021-01 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “Should sight-reading be emphasized less for piano instruction with new developments in technology”
Every musician knows that sheet music can be frustrating at first, but almost everyone has spent quite some time learning it. I've met literally dozens of people (students, fellow musicians etc) that have asked the exact same question: "Why isn't there a simpler way of notating music? Ableton's piano roll works for me! Synthesia works for me!" Sheet music took many many years of development to reach the state it is today and it is dominating the way people read/write/learn/teach/study music because so far it is the only way that can display literally every little aspect that needs displaying. I can show you one example of poor quality in the video you posted (2:12): Can you tell me what the