Ragtime#4: Loose Canon

The sprawling, thought-provoking, and highly entertaining forth episode of Ragtime with the brilliant Peter de Jager and renowned scholar and performer Peter Tregear.

0’00 - Intro

3’29 - EXCERPT: Faust Symphony (Liszt)

5’34 - Is there an evolving principle at work leading to serialism?

17’12 - EXCERPT: Moro Lasso al Mio Duolo (Gesualdo)

18’52 - Are we losing receptivity to dissonances past?

23’54 - Ross Duffin and Equal Temperament

28’38 - Written versus oral traditions

30’38 - EXCERPT: Le Sacre (Stravinsky)

31’35 - How might Le Sacre have sounded to Mozart?

33’36 - Wagner’s Rheingold

35’42 - Octatonic versus bitonal

37’52 - EXCERPT: Harry Partch

39’53 - The Tri-tone

44’30 - Von Helmholtz’s findings

46’40 - EXCERPT: Etude Op.10#4 (Chopin)

47’43 - Major = happy, minor = sad?

55’46 - Derryck Cooke

57’02 - Eastern music (Arabic, Chinese, Javanese)

1:00’31 - Opening Pandora’s box 

1:03’20 - EXCERPT: Cello Suite #1 (Bach)

1:05’08 - Plato on the effects of modes

1:09’37 - EXCERPT: Cantata Op.32 (Webern)

1:10’42 - Thought-experiment: reorganising the genesis; substituting 9th-10th century Organum with Serialism.

1:18’34 - Said and Orientalism.

1:20’40 - A Taruskin tale