Did you start this thread with all music written using common practice rules, or purposefully breaking them, in mind, or solely for music written during the Classical period?
Did you start this thread with all music written using common practice rules, or purposefully breaking them, in mind, or solely for music written during the Classical period?
Rachmaninoff's C sharp minor prelude holds a special fascination for me, as it is a bit of "programmatic music" (for those who care about such things).
The story goes like this. This was written about the plague. The opening section are the church bells and the tranquillity of the funeral as the coffin is lowered into the ground. As the music grows more frenetic, it is because the person in the coffin has been buried alive, while in a coma or something similar. After the fight to get out, the church bells/death wins.
dark shit.