Color
Description
Painting and poetry became more abstract during the latter part of the 19th century, and music was not slow in following. This program looks at music's movement away from melody toward a greater emphasis on tone color or timbre-the warm palette of sounds an orchestra can create. Works from Debussy, Boulez, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, and Takemitsu are used to show how traditional musical forms have been sidelined in the interests of pure quality of sound.
Runtime
52 min
Series
Subjects
Genre
Date of Publication
[2013], c1996
Database
Films on Demand
Direct Link
Similar Films
Still Waters. The Poetry of P. K. Page
At 4 o'clock in the summer, hope, 1929
Eugéne Jansson. Sunrise over the rooftops
From Russia for Omagh
On the Rumba River
Creative violation. Rebel art of street stencil
Creative Landscape
Historical TV broadcasts. Omnibus with Leonard Bernstein
Mood in Music, Another Effective Surprise
Timbre, Change of Timbre
Thank God. An African-American Docu-Opera — Part 1
Profile in Music. Plácido Domingo
Energy, enigma, exile, Husain 95
Timbre, Name That Timbre, Part 2