[FairfieldLife] Harmony in Indian classical music?
https://youtu.be/al1q01CZgtc?t=3m30s https://youtu.be/al1q01CZgtc?t=3m30s If I got that right, there is no harmony or counterpoint in Indian classical music. Any thoughts, why is it like that?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Harmony
Some of these boy bands remind me of a barber shop quartet or a gospel music singalong. Apparently Barry is not aware of these male vocal harmony groups: New Edition, New Kids on the Block, Boyz II Men, Backstreet Boys, NSync, Jonas Brothers or One Direction. Go figure. On 11/2/2013 2:22 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: Given the response to my recent posts about Crosby, Stills, Nash, I shall continue on the general theme of vocal harmony. It's to some extent a lost art in modern music, and that, to my way of seeing, is a pity. It's a high art. One of the best harmonists I know of in music is Emmylou Harris. In her taste for this artform, she continues in the footsteps of her mentor, Gram Parsons, and his love for the country harmonies he grew up with and introduced her to. Although I appreciate the more formal art of musical composition, and charting out harmonies on sheet music before attempting to perform them, for me, there is nothing quite like spontaneous harmony, the thing that happens between two or more musicians who suddenly find themselves on the same musical wavelength during the performance of the same song, spontaneously. Here are a few examples. With Rodney Crowell (pure Louvin Brothers harmony): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g8EqgRk-nw With John Starling (from the folk group Seldom Scene): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYs2RbCcKsk With Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnieh0Y1V-o With Mark Knopfler: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsMO0A1iE0I With Gram: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO8C9fqC3uk
[FairfieldLife] Harmony
Given the response to my recent posts about Crosby, Stills, Nash, I shall continue on the general theme of vocal harmony. It's to some extent a lost art in modern music, and that, to my way of seeing, is a pity. It's a high art. One of the best harmonists I know of in music is Emmylou Harris. In her taste for this artform, she continues in the footsteps of her mentor, Gram Parsons, and his love for the country harmonies he grew up with and introduced her to. Although I appreciate the more formal art of musical composition, and charting out harmonies on sheet music before attempting to perform them, for me, there is nothing quite like spontaneous harmony, the thing that happens between two or more musicians who suddenly find themselves on the same musical wavelength during the performance of the same song, spontaneously. Here are a few examples. With Rodney Crowell (pure Louvin Brothers harmony): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g8EqgRk-nw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g8EqgRk-nw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g8EqgRk-nw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g8EqgRk-nw With John Starling (from the folk group Seldom Scene): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYs2RbCcKsk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYs2RbCcKsk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYs2RbCcKsk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYs2RbCcKsk With Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnieh0Y1V-o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnieh0Y1V-o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnieh0Y1V-o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnieh0Y1V-o With Mark Knopfler: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsMO0A1iE0I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsMO0A1iE0I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsMO0A1iE0I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsMO0A1iE0I With Gram: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO8C9fqC3uk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO8C9fqC3uk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO8C9fqC3uk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO8C9fqC3uk
Re: [FairfieldLife] Harmony
One has to be careful when dealing with pop artists' musical training. Some had formal training and it was purposefully omitted from bios. Don't forget back in the day when there was still music education in schools they had choir classes. Many of those student learned to read music and sing complicated musical pieces with complex harmony. A popular piece in the 1950s was Poinciana a latin tune with modern harmonies. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4NafK3NFhA A high school choir learning that one song with it's upper partials of chords was enough to allow them to sing a lot of other songs with complex harmonies. It seemed that about every high school choir back in the day was singing. And don't underestimate what some artists learned from being in church choirs. On 11/02/2013 12:22 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: Given the response to my recent posts about Crosby, Stills, Nash, I shall continue on the general theme of vocal harmony. It's to some extent a lost art in modern music, and that, to my way of seeing, is a pity. It's a high art. One of the best harmonists I know of in music is Emmylou Harris. In her taste for this artform, she continues in the footsteps of her mentor, Gram Parsons, and his love for the country harmonies he grew up with and introduced her to. Although I appreciate the more formal art of musical composition, and charting out harmonies on sheet music before attempting to perform them, for me, there is nothing quite like spontaneous harmony, the thing that happens between two or more musicians who suddenly find themselves on the same musical wavelength during the performance of the same song, spontaneously. Here are a few examples. With Rodney Crowell (pure Louvin Brothers harmony): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g8EqgRk-nw With John Starling (from the folk group Seldom Scene): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYs2RbCcKsk With Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnieh0Y1V-o With Mark Knopfler: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsMO0A1iE0I With Gram: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO8C9fqC3uk
