The following is a made-for-home-video version of a lecture I gave at the University of Utah’s Fridays With Faculty series, about how musical structures can “behave” or mirror extra-musical concepts. Below are links to scores and recordings of pieces referenced in the talk.
SCORES & RECORDINGS
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 6 “Pastoral”
Score
Recording
(John Eliot Gardiner conducting the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique)
BERG: Wozzeck Acts I and III
Score
Act I Film
Act III Film
(Claudio Abbado conducting the Vienna State Opera)
RANKIN: Concerto for Wind Ensemble
Score
Recording
(Rodney Dorsey conducting the Indiana University Wind Ensemble)
