Musical elitism is a vast topic that touches on aspiration, historical legacy, class, gatekeeping, education, snobbery, wealth, privilege, classical music and popular culture. In this video I take a broad look at all of these.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
05:22 - Ancient China & Confucius
09:21 - The Secret Power of Music
11:51 - The Sex Pistols
15:46 - Mozart
21:11 - Mainstream Elitism
26:47 - The Classical Image
40:58 - The Curious Case of Milton Babbitt
46:00 - The Imposter Phenomenon
52:38 - The Cultural Revolution
59:55 - Final Thoughts
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So many links!
Papers
“The Music and Musical Instruments of Ancient China” by Robert W. Marks
Source: The Musical Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Oct., 1932), pp. 593-607
https://www.jstor.org/stable/738941
“The musicality of Plato” by Leon Crickmore
Source: Hermathena, No. 180 (Summer 2006), pp. 19-43
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23041660
“Musical Art in Early Confucian Philosophy” by Siu-Chi Huang
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1396785?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
“Moral Psychology and Degenerate Regimes in Plato’s Republic” by Peiying (Peggy) Zhu (thesis)
https://repository.wellesley.edu/object/ir783
“Why Chinese people play Western classical music” by Hao Huang
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0255761411420955
“Music under Mao, Its Background and Aftermath” by Mao Yu Run
Source: Asian Music , Spring - Summer, 1991, Vol. 22, No. 2
https://www.jstor.org/stable/834309
‘Milton Babbitt Encounters Academia (And Vice Versa)’ by Brian Harker
Souce: American Music Vol. 26, No. 3 (Fall, 2008)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40071711?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
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Articles
“After the Cultural Revolution: what western classical music means in China” - The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jul/08/after-the-cultural-revolution-what-western-classical-music-means-in-china
Confucianism Revival in China - The Economist (June 23rd 2021)
https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2021/06/23/how-did-confucianism-win-back-the-chinese-communist-party
New York Times article on Classical music in China (1974)
https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/15/archives/china-assails-beethoven-and-schubert.html
New Statesman article on elitism in classical music (July, 2012)
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2012/07/classical-music-should-be-about-more-elite-parties-and-private-s
BPI research on inequality in access to music in state schools
https://www.bpi.co.uk/news-analysis/bpi-calls-on-government-to-tackle-growing-inequality-in-access-to-music-in-state-schools/
Relevant articles in the New Statesman by Andrew Mellor
https://www.newstatesman.com/author/andrew-mellor
Interview with John Lydon, The Times, UK, (March 1999)
http://www.johnlydon.com/TIMES_UK99.HTM
Einaudi & Elitism in Classical Music, The Cross-Eyed Pianist (2020)
https://crosseyedpianist.com/tag/elitism-in-classical-music/
“Who cares if you listen?” Milton Babbitt, High Fidelity, vol. 8, no. 2 (1958)
https://wps.prenhall.com/hss_mymusiclibrary_1/167/42754/10945080.cw/index.html
A perfect Roger Ebert summary of ‘Masked and Anonymous’
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/masked-and-anonymous-2003
Pat Metheny on Kenny G
http://www.jazzoasis.com/methenyonkennyg.htm
Musicians Union Education Statistics Report (2015)
https://musiciansunion.org.uk/Files/Reports/Industry/Education-Statistics-Report.aspx
Arts Council - Creating a more inclusive classical music (2021)
https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/sites/default/files/download-file/Executive_Summary.pdf
Arts Council - In Harmony programme (link to a report on the homepage)
https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/music-education-hubs/harmony
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Books
“Mozart: Portrait of a Genius” by Norbert Elias (1993)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mozart-Portrait-Genius-Norbert-Elias/dp/0520084756
“Mozart” by Maynard Solomon (1995)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000ROKXXS/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
“The Secret Power of Music” by David Tame (1984, read at your own risk)
https://kupdf.net/download/david-tame-the-secret-power-of-music_58d59399dc0d60cb7cc34628_pdf
“Class, Control, and Classical Music”, Anna Bull (2019)
https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190844356.001.0001/oso-9780190844356
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Film
“The Filth and the Fury” - a documentary by Julian Temple
“Mao to Mozart - Isaac Stern in China” (1979)
https://youtu.be/1JtXq63b-Fw
In this video, I review the Unison MIDI Chord Pack, which is advertised as a revolution for beginners who want to produce great music or great beats. It's not.
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ABOUT UNISON AUDIO
Some Adverts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqZsK-vVzg4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUIfGxBFeRc
Business details
https://www.bbb.org/ca/bc/vancouver/profile/music/unison-audio-inc-0037-2400854/details
Trust pilot Reviews
https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/unison.audio
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YOUTUBERS APPEARING IN THIS VIDEO
Liam Taylor
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIioZmfa319qfzquQJfeDHg
Audacity is the world’s most widely used audio editing & recording software. It is free and open source software (FOSS) and maintained by an amazing community. In this video, I’m announcing my own involvement in the project, which I’m very excited about. For those worried about MuseScore (an open source notation & music app that I also lead): don’t be. I’m not going anywhere!
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Any highly experienced developers, designers or product owners interested in a career working with either Audacity or MuseScore, please check out: https://mu.se/careers
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Audacity Links
Homepage
https://www.audacityteam.org/
Forum
https://forum.audacityteam.org/
Social Media
https://twitter.com/getaudacity?lang=en
https://www.facebook.com/AudacityTeamOfficial
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Other Links
About Logo
https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=83108
The use of stock music on Reality TV (Gordon Ramsay & Kitchen Nightmares, America's Got Talent, The Bachelor, Married at First Sight, etc.) has become more blunt over the last 20 years, constantly reusing the same tropes to present a simplistic, highly reified portrait of people & animals. Misrepresenting the world. In this video I break down the most common musical tropes used across various types of Reality TV comparing them to similar tropes used in nature documentaries to show how manipulative and unsophisticated they are.
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The 'Other' in Music
Western Music and Its Others: Difference, Representation, and Appropriation in Music https://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Music-Others-Representation-Appropriation/dp/0520220846
About Archetypes in Branding
https://brandsbyovo.com/expertise/brand-archetypes/
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Helpful Reification Links:
Introductory:
Reification, Music and Problems of Modern Philosophy - Jonathan Lewis, 2014
https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/reification-music-and-problems-of-modern-philosophy(c07e3c0b-baa5-4001-85f5-a8a6db1c8340).html
Adorno: A Critical Introduction - Simon Jarvis, 1998
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0745611796/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Advanced:
History & Class Consciousness, Georg Lukacs, 1923
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/hcc05.htm
Dialectic of Enlightenment - Adorno, Theodor, 1944
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dialectic-Enlightenment-Classics-Theodor-Adorno/dp/1859841546
Philosophy of Modern Music - Adorno, Theodor, 1949
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Philosophy-New-Music-Theodor-Adorno/dp/0816636664
This video covers how I designed a music notation font for MuseScore 3.6, in collaboration with my friend Simon Smith, a professional engraving expert. Apart from MuseScore's 5 million users, this font is available for free for anyone to download and use. Along the way, I also discuss the inspiration for our font: an application called SCORE, created by Leland Smith.
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The Piano Trio is one of the most popular chamber ensembles in classical music. In this video I discuss how composers write for it and why it's difficult. Along the way, I look at one of my own compositions along with examples (with sheet music) from Telemann, JS & JC Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Ravel, Rachmaninoff, Schubert, Clara Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Andriessen, Morton Feldman, Gordon McPherson, Donnacha Dennehy, Jonathan Harvey, etc. I also describe my own writing process too, drawing on a great performance of my work by the Fidelio Trio.
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THE ATOS TRIO (featured in this video)
www.thomashoppe.com
www.atostrio.com
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OTHER
Description of Mozart’s relationship to the emergence of the PianoForte
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/30/arts/music/30moza.html
LITERATURE
The Piano Trio: Its History, Technique, and Repertoire - Basil Smallman
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Piano-Trio-Technique-Repertoire-Paperbacks/dp/0198163045
An experiment in variation: The finale of Mozart’s piano trio in G, K.496 - Ivanovitch, R.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290766238_An_experiment_in_variation_The_finale_of_Mozart's_piano_trio_in_G_K496
The Effect of Scoring on the "Sonata-Form" in Mozart's Mature Instrumental Ensembles - N. Lee Orr
https://www.jstor.org/stable/830514?seq=1
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