Metamusic: Music Representing Music from Beyond the Bony Labyrinth

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Lodewijk Muns

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Metamusic: Music Representing Music

28 minutes Posted May 14, 2024 at 10:52 am.

Intro

The Self-Waltzing Waltz

‘Meta’

Music Representing Music

No Longer Functional Music

Waltz and Metawaltz

Weber: Aufforderung zum Tanz

Schumann: Papillons

Limits of ‘meta’

Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales

Music Representing Music Remembered

An Accumulated Past

F. Chopin, Grande valse brillante op. 18*

L. van Beethoven, Sonate in d op. 31 nr. 2, Largo Allegro*

F. Chopin, Sonata in B-flat Minor Op. 35, Marche funèbre*

Funerary Procession of Margaret Thatcher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2AmgZSIFY4

F. Schubert, Valses nobles op. 77 D969 no. 10*

F. Liszt, Soirées de Vienne No. 6*

C.M. von Weber, Aufforderung zum Tanz op. 65*

, 16:05 R. Schumann, Papillons op. 2*

C. M. von Weber: Der Freischütz (Berliner Philharmoniker, Harnoncourt) Teldec 4509-97758-2

, 22:43 M. Ravel, Valses nobles et sentimentales*

F. Liszt, Soirees de Vienne No. 6*

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A concert waltz is a waltz. But it is not a waltz for dancing. So is it still a waltz? It is a waltz that waltzes. It is a representation of a waltz, music that represents music, and an instance of what you might call 'metamusic'.

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*Piano: Lodewijk Muns

Additional commentary and references: Lodewijk Muns, On 'metamusic', https://lodewijkmuns.nl/2024/05/12/metamusic/

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