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.
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52 min
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Date of Publication
[2013], c1996
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Films on Demand
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