Officer 663
12-15-06, 10:32 PM
Twentieth century French composer, esotericist and author. Often called a 'Modernist' due to the emphasis on dissonance in his compositions, Rudhyar, like Gustav Holst, was in actual fact a musical mystic whose works drew on and evoked Vedic lore and Hindu sacred music.
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Advent/Crisis & Overcoming/Transmutation (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PDFG5DBV)
These three later works (the first two performed by The Kronos Quartet, the latter by pianist Maria Mikulak) illustrate the strength of Rudhyar's work: passionate, mysterious, and moving toward an almost ambient sensibility, beautiful without being cloying, dissonant without being obnoxiously flashy.
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Advent/Crisis & Overcoming/Transmutation (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PDFG5DBV)
These three later works (the first two performed by The Kronos Quartet, the latter by pianist Maria Mikulak) illustrate the strength of Rudhyar's work: passionate, mysterious, and moving toward an almost ambient sensibility, beautiful without being cloying, dissonant without being obnoxiously flashy.