Vibrato - Tom Service

[DracoM]

Wow! Is he going to walk into an ice storm over this or what.............- and that's judging by just the first fifteen minutes!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000205s

[Serial_Apologist]

Wow! Is he going to walk into an ice storm over this or what.............- and that's judging by just the first fifteen minutes!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000205s

Previous programme - The Nutcracker. Obviously in the wrong order.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

An interesting subject, hosted by the man who thinks he knows everything.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I was very brave and listened to the entire programme. The usual know-it-all gaspathon, I'm afraid, littered with rather vague arguments and opinions.

[DracoM]

[Bryn]

I thought it a very fine popular exposition of the subject, as I did when it was first broadcast some 22 months ago. An excellent illustrative contribution from Rebecca Lodge. I look forward to the edition on instrumental, particularly string, vibrato.

[jayne lee wilson]

Very articulate, amusing, and extensively exemplified across a wide range of genres......from a natural communicator.

Yes, very much hoping for one on strings....

[esmondo]

I didn't catch this one, but I did recently hear him pontificating about tritones, which made me wonder - does anyone find his stuff of any use or interest? If you know about the subject beforehand it's just dull and predictable ("devil in music", yadda yadda), if you don't I'm not sure his schoolmasterish/pub-bore approach will actually enlighten you in any way.

[jayne lee wilson]

I didn't catch this one, but I did recently hear him pontificating about tritones, which made me wonder - does anyone find his stuff of any use or interest? If you know about the subject beforehand it's just dull and predictable ("devil in music", yadda yadda), if you don't I'm not sure his schoolmasterish/pub-bore approach will actually enlighten you in any way.

Try some of these......

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=tom+service+guardain+music+guides&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

One could write "A Short History of the Tritone" the diabolus in musica as you so allude, around some of the major masterpieces of Classical Music....so no wonder Tom, who knows a great deal more about music than most of us have ever pretended to, is interested in it. I enjoyed his essay on vibrato, very widerangingly exemplified across multiple musical genres as it was, very much.

Calling him a pub bore....is something you may wish to reconsider after researching the google entries above. The piece on Xenakis might be a good place to start.


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