Top 10 music groundbreakers

Submitted by Benny on Fri, 05/26/2006 - 08:18
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  • 1.English country tunes (Finnissy)
  • 2.Dammerschien (Xenakis)
  • 3.4.33 (Cage)
  • 4.Disco Volante (mr bungle)
  • 5.Grueppen (Stockhausen)
  • 6.Amenaza al mundo (Fantomas)
  • 7.Bad blood and blasphemy (The Tigerlillies)
  • 8.Pierrot Lunaire (Schoenberg)
  • 9.The Real Imaginary Framed Existence of Ringhead and Loon (Delacour)
  • 10.Tristan und Isolde (Wagner)
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soorry for any spelling misdakes, i'm rather pissed...thanking you

lukeprog06/05/2006

You have exceptional and unusual tastes. Tristan and Isolde and Pierrot Lunaire are fantastic, and 4'33" is certainly groundbreaking. The others you list all look very intriguing to me.

Some other significant groundbreakers:

Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven)
Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faun (Debussy)
Le Sacre du Printemps (Stravinsky)
Gesang der Junglinge (Stockhausen)
Repons (Boulez)

I cannot find anything about The Real Imaginary Framed Existence of Ringhead and Loon or Dammerschien. Will you link to online data about them, please?

And, would you care to share any more of your musical opinions with us?

Benny06/14/2006

Thanks for the reply, Clips from 'The Real Imaginary Framed Existence of Ringhead and Loon' can be found at www.myspace.com/adamdelacour, it features Michael Finnissy on a heavily prepared piano! Dämmerschein (the correct spelling when sober)is available through 'Mode 58' although 'Metastasis' is probably considered his true groundbreaker, I find Dämmerschein the more impressive. My list includes pieces and albums from what would be considered more 'popular' areas of music. Fantomas and mr Bungle are both projects of Mike Patton and the Tigerlillies album is chosen mainly for its controversial lyrical content. Cheers