Word: songful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speaking in the distorted world of Kafka and Wilfred Owen. Berg's works, directly descended from Mahler's Ninth Symphoney, perhaps the supreme symphonic masterpiece of the century, formed a melancholy Agnus Dei. A most moving expression of this mood of lachrymose serenity is found in "The Drinking Song of Earth's Sorrow" set by Mahler in his Das Lied von der Erde...
Listen to the song of trouble...
...withers and dies, and the song...
...TYPICAL song begins with a soft organ intro which is then picked up by the others and transmuted through a series of structural and musical changes. For example, in "Punch and Judy" each member of the group does a solo (Lassie Sachs' bass solo being outstanding) while in the background the others play the melodic line in a fading spiralling version...
...Bead Game also has virtually mastered the art of switching from tempo to tempo. On "Slipping," the song begins with Jimmy Hodder singing in a slow 4/4, which then becomes a hard hammering instrumental break in 6/8 followed by a simmering and brilliant guitar bridge in fast 4/4 which leads back into the slow 4/4 with the vocalist coming back in. A few rounds later Hodder beings singing in the 6/8 tempo and the slower beat becomes an arena for long and reflective improvisational playing, completing the circle perfectly. Such fully realized, very abrupt changes, occur again and again...