Most moving melody

[Quarky]

Haunting melodies:

Canteloube : Songs of the Auvergne : Bailero

Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5

However I have to admit that I'm currently into extreme minimalism - not a trace of melody in sight!

[MrGongGong]

However I have to admit that I'm currently into extreme minimalism - not a trace of melody in sight!

La Monte ?

[Bryn]

La Monte ?

[Quarky]

La Monte ?

Eliane Radigue, in the main, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAWBuyzPwvg&t=2405s

[LMcD]

I have sometimes been a little self-conscious of my sweet ear (potency of cheap music and all that), so I'm heartened by this thread. My special field of interest has been the American Songbook but it's curious how my listening has declined in recent years though that doesn't have to be a cause for concern given that there are always great melodies and lyrics percolating in my mind.

But, at the risk of repeating previous suggestions ...

Finlandia (chorale)
Sospiri
Satie's etude (almost arabesque)
Faure's Sanctus
So much by Richard Rodgers (I Have Dreamed, If I Loved You, Out of My Dreams)
Rutter (Lord Bless You and Keep You)
Jobim (Girl from Ipanema)
Dvorak 'American' string quartet
Simple Gifts
Saint Saens (3rd Symphony) Organ Finale
Marsellaise
Ma n'Eireann
Slow Train
Brigg Fair
I Guess I'll Have To change My Plan (sung by Astaire & Buchanan)

and finally, a sweet, quirky little love song from Spike Milligan ...

https://youtu.be/fsuryJ9Z0w4

Would that be Flanders and Swann's 'Slow Train'?
(Petroc played it an hour or so ago)

[cloughie]

Would that be Flanders and Swann's 'Slow Train'?
(Petroc played it an hour or so ago)

The Kings Singers did it some time ago!

[Pulcinella]

That doesn't seem to move at all!

[Bryn]

That doesn't seem to move at all!

Two performances in the early 1970s spring to mind. Both were played as the audience arrived at the concerts concerned. The first was getting on for 50 years ago at St John's. Smith Square, very shortly after it was deconsecrated. This was the opening work of the "Roger Smalley Memorial Concert" on 24th April 1970. Anyone with experience of tuning in fifths knows how the beats move as the interval is tuned. Add to that the interplay with the acoustics of the venue in which it is performed and as one moved around the space, one's perception of the relative pitches changed. The second was at a concert at the then Lucy Milton Gallery in Notting Hill Gate, 21st August 1975, given by keyboard player composers John Lewis and Dave Smith. Here the moving aspect was from the busy traffic street-side entrance, on into the small gallery itself. The change in aural perception was, again, quite moving in its emotional effect.

[Pulcinella]

Two performances in the early 1970s spring to mind. Both were played as the audience arrived at the concerts concerned. The first was getting on for 50 years ago at St John's. Smith Square, very shortly after it was deconsecrated. This was the opening work of the "Roger Smalley Memorial Concert" on 24th April 1970. Anyone with experience of tuning in fifths knows how the beats move as the interval is tuned. Add to that the interplay with the acoustics of the venue in which it is performed and as one moved around the space, one's perception of the relative pitches changed. The second was at a concert at the then Lucy Milton Gallery in Notting Hill Gate, 21st August 1975, given by keyboard player composers John Lewis and Dave Smith. Here the moving aspect was from the busy traffic street-side entrance, on into the small gallery itself. The change in aural perception was, again, quite moving in its emotional effect.

Interesting.
What's it scored for, or is that left open to the performer(s)?

[Stanfordian]

I have sometimes been a little self-conscious of my sweet ear (potency of cheap music and all that), so I'm heartened by this thread. My special field of interest has been the American Songbook but it's curious how my listening has declined in recent years though that doesn't have to be a cause for concern given that there are always great melodies and lyrics percolating in my mind.

But, at the risk of repeating previous suggestions ...

Finlandia (chorale)
Sospiri
Satie's etude (almost arabesque)
Faure's Sanctus
So much by Richard Rodgers (I Have Dreamed, If I Loved You, Out of My Dreams)
Rutter (Lord Bless You and Keep You)
Jobim (Girl from Ipanema)
Dvorak 'American' string quartet
Simple Gifts
Saint Saens (3rd Symphony) Organ Finale
Marsellaise
Ma n'Eireann
Slow Train
Brigg Fair
I Guess I'll Have To change My Plan (sung by Astaire & Buchanan)

and finally, a sweet, quirky little love song from Spike Milligan ...

https://youtu.be/fsuryJ9Z0w4

Elgar's work Sospiri is sublime!

[Bryn]

Interesting.
What's it scored for, or is that left open to the performer(s)?

The score, as shown, is complete. One could use anything from sine waves to a full orchestra. It was fun to use to of the oscillators on a VCS3 (with the synchronising modification, if fitted, switched off.) The frequency drift on those things was something to behold.

[cloughie]

Metronome marking of one semibrieve = eternity?

[Serial_Apologist]

I've always felt it should have been F natural - to add to the tension!

[StephenMcK]

The Kings Singers did it some time ago!

And that always would be my 'go to version.

[cloughie]

I've always felt it should have been F natural - to add to the tension!

Did Cage say ‘Call that minimalist?’