Harry Taussig - 80 (2023)
Artist: Harry Taussig
Title: 80
Year Of Release: 2023
Label: Tompkins Square
Genre: Folk
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 00:39:54
Total Size: 202 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
New Release: Harry Taussig to release ’80’ on his 82nd birthdayTitle: 80
Year Of Release: 2023
Label: Tompkins Square
Genre: Folk
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 00:39:54
Total Size: 202 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
Harry Taussig on ‘80‘ :
“With a perspective of about 60 years, I finally understand what I’ve been trying to do in my musical compositions over these six decades. I grew up with two musical streams – at home it was European classical music, at college it was American folk music. And I bathed in both streams.
Like several of my contemporary guitarists, I wanted to extend the American folk guitar tradition into previously unexplored territories. Each found their direction: blues, psychedelia, etc. Mine was using the theories of classical musical forms, both traditional and contemporary.
One of the delights of classical music is that the composer will constantly play with the listener, allowing him or her to guess where the music is going and then surprise them by not going there at all, but going to another place unexpected but equally logical. This seems to be the throughline in my musical heroes: Bach, Schoenberg, Glass, and many others. I have adopted many of their structural schemes, rhythmic devices, and harmonic stratagems to counter the comfort and predictability of folk (and popular) music. I delight in the response, “You can’t do that … oh, I guess you can.”
Tracklist:
1 01. Harry Taussig - Etude in G Major #7 (Take 1) (02:30)
1 02. Harry Taussig - Etude in D Major #2 (06:29)
1 03. Harry Taussig - Lullaby in D Modal (02:57)
1 04. Harry Taussig - Etude in G Major #9 (03:17)
1 05. Harry Taussig - Recessional for Banjo in D Major (03:51)
1 06. Harry Taussig - Etude in D♭ Major (Take 1) (02:57)
1 07. Harry Taussig - Etude in D♭ Major (Take 2) (03:00)
1 08. Harry Taussig - Sugar Babe (03:31)
1 09. Harry Taussig - Etude in G Major #4 (03:45)
1 10. Harry Taussig - Etude in G Minor #3 (05:05)
1 11. Harry Taussig - Etude in G Major #7 (Take 2) (02:25)