{"id":2019,"date":"2009-07-04T10:57:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-04T16:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp2\/?p=2019"},"modified":"2015-05-06T12:30:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T17:30:12","slug":"american-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/american-music\/","title":{"rendered":"American music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Ives is often celebrated for having anticipated many of the innovations of twentieth-century music. Less often noted is that he also anticipated, if that&#8217;s the right word, P.D.Q. Bach. Some years back, an acquaintance for whom I played a recording of <i>Three Places in New England<\/i> was scandalized by the second movement \u2014 real music isn&#8217;t supposed to be funny, he said. (Tell that to Mozart.) Here it is, the ideal music for the Fourth of July:<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UNlL27HvLOo&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s become trendy in recent years to complain that the music of P.D.Q. Bach overshadows that of the composer Peter Schickele. I&#8217;ll grant that the humor is hit-and-miss, with misses predominating on the later recordings. Sometimes, though, the jokes work. Here&#8217;s the fourth movement of the &#8220;Unbegun Symphony.&#8221; ((Strictly speaking, this isn&#8217;t P.D.Q. Bach, since Schickele claimed it as his own, so to speak.))<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">AudioPlayer.setup(\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-audio-player\/player\/player.swf\", { width: 290 });<\/script><p id=\"audioplayer_1516\"><audio controls><source src=\"http:\/\/tancos.net\/audio\/Unbegun Symphony.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/p><p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">AudioPlayer.embed(\"audioplayer_1516\", {soundFile: \"http:\/\/tancos.net\/audio\/Unbegun Symphony.mp3\",  titles: \"Zoopraxiscope\", autostart: \"no\", loop: \"no\", animation: \"yes\", remaining: \"yes\", noinfo: \"no\", initialvolume: \"70\", buffer: \"5\", encode: \"no\", checkpolicy: \"no\", rtl: \"no\", width: \"100%\", transparentpagebg: \"no\", bg: \"E5E5E5\", leftbg: \"CCCCCC\", lefticon: \"333333\", voltrack: \"F2F2F2\", volslider: \"666666\", rightbg: \"B4B4B4\", rightbghover: \"999999\", righticon: \"333333\", righticonhover: \"FFFFFF\", loader: \"009900\", track: \"FFFFFF\", tracker: \"DDDDDD\", border: \"CCCCCC\", skip: \"666666\", text: \"333333\"});<\/script><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve got a couple of hours to kill while waiting for it to get dark enough for fireworks tonight, why don&#8217;t you invite 35 of your closest friends over with their instruments and run through some American music of a different sort. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.otherminds.org\/shtml\/Scores.shtml\">Here&#8217;s the score<\/a> to Terry Riley&#8217;s <i>In C<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Ives is often celebrated for having anticipated many of the innovations of twentieth-century music. Less often noted is that he also anticipated, if that&#8217;s the right word, P.D.Q. Bach. Some years back, an acquaintance for whom I played a recording of Three Places in New England was scandalized by the second movement \u2014 real &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/american-music\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;American music&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,16],"tags":[123,274,669,425,560],"class_list":["post-2019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture","category-humor-and-horror","category-music","tag-charles-ives","tag-humor","tag-music","tag-p-d-q-bach","tag-terry-riley"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-wz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13641,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions\/13641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}