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In Reply to: Ah, yes! Sound effects added to classical music... posted by madisonears on April 1, 2007 at 16:18:31:
What about the cannon shots in the 1812 Overture?What about the muskets and cannons in Wellington's Victory?
What about the pistols in Satie's Parade?
What about the wind machine in Gershwin's Catfish Row?
I take it you don't like any of Michael Bishop's sound effects? They do make Johann Strauss along with a lot of other music more enjoyable. I can no longer imagine "The Explosion's Polka" without an explosion or "Clear Track Polka" without a steam engine.
Sorry but I love music that is fun, it is not necessary to be serious all the time, in my humble opinion.
"Music is love"
Teresa
Follow Ups:
The engine sounds on Clear Track Polka are made with real instruments.Point I was trying to make is the non-musical sounds on both volumes blend perfectly with the musical sounds to make not only fun and enjoyable music. But they change forever the way I want to hear them.
Also Erich Kunzel conducting has that Viennese lilt so important for making the Strauss Family’s music enjoyable. The rhythm is so infectious that it makes me want to get up and dance. This is why I like Kunzel’s Strauss the best and now that I have a Universal player that plays CDs without coldness or pain I can for the first time truly enjoy these marvelous performances.
"Music is love"
Teresa
There are animal sound effects in the score of a number of pieces of music: bird calls in Cantus Arcticus by Rautavarra and Pines of Rome by Respighi, whale calls in a piece by Hovhaness, and probably lots of others. (Might be a fun list to compile!) The cannon in 1812 were included in the score, as was the pealing of actual church bells. I'm critical of adding something not originally intended by the composer, whether they titled their work provocatively or not. In my opinion, that makes the music just silly, as differentiated from fun.But then, I'm German, so, to answer your question: no, I don't like music that's FUN unless the composer intended it to be that way. But I do laugh, or at least smile, every time I hear a Turkish march in the middle of a Beethoven symphony, or any similarly goofy passage put there by the composer.
Please, enjoy Strauss or any other composer you like, with all the artificial noises you care to have added. If that music and production value suits your taste, you have every right to partake of the fun of it. I just don't think anyone should be given the impression that Strauss with explosions or steam engines or any other nonsense is the best representation of that music, unless Strauss wrote in the score: "Insert whoopee whistle here".
I just listened to Vienna Philharmonic's 1958 New Year Concert conducted by Willi Boskovsky on London Reel to Reel and the Champagne Polka has champagne corks popping and the Explosions Polka has recorded explosions.
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