RIP Pierre Boulez

In fact, everyone typically whistles tunes like this in the shower

Why 23,393 views if it's not whistleable? This guy's argument is a total fail

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Oracolo wrote:

I don't know, but do you hear something here that makes you want to whistle under the chin?

http://www.pianoconcerto.it/forum/index.php?/topic/1641-inverno-per-clarinetto-e-viola/

o yes, my dear, at least the initial series that then forms the basis of everything. it seems rather catchy to me.

maybe you've only listened to it a few times!

suonolatromba wrote:

maybe you've only listened to it a few times!

That is exactly what needs to be said to those who expect a melody to whistle in an art music piece.

The problem is that this happens very little in art, it always happens in pop music. Evidently, this Maresca is a light music composer; besides, the dodecaphonic series is a series of twelve sounds that are perfectly intonable. The chromatic scale could also be a dodecaphonic series... on average, nobody whistles chromatics, let alone a tritone.

We realize that Maresca says music must be whistleable, so for him (and according to him, also universally for everyone), music is what lies between the '70s and part of the '80s. Poor Gesualdo.

Try sending him your piece Matteo, you'll see he'll give a lovely review....you will write about listening to it several times, and he will tell you that it isn't music precisely because it must be studied. As if this didn't apply to Bach or others.

cromatismo wrote:

In fact, everyone typically whistles tunes like this in the shower

Why 23,393 views if it's not whistleable? This guy's argument is totally flawed

As Frank was explaining, perhaps the music needs to be followable and not necessarily whistleable