Drones
Tom Service explores the variety of music based on a drone, from rustic dance to works of mystic religious ecstasy. With piper Kathryn Tickell and composer Phill Niblock.
Tom Service discovers endless variety in music based on a drone - from rustic dance to mystic religious ecstasy. Medieval Christian music used a drone to provide support for their liturgical chants; old country dances went with a swing to the drone of bagpipes and hurdy-gurdy.
Much Indian classical music builds elaborate melodic variations over a drone. Minimalist composer Lamonte Young has a never-ending drone piece playing in his loft in New York; and rock band The Velvet Underground brought psychedelic drones into the pop scene of the late 1960s.
Tom talks to Northumbrian piper Kathryn Tickell about the drones on her bagpipes, and to American minimalist composer Phill Niblock about his use of microtonal drones in his music.
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Alan Dargin & Michael Atherton
Virtuoso Didj
- Bloodwood: The Art of the Didjeridu.
- Natural Symphonies.
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Mcgrimmons
The Lament for MacSwan of Roaig - Pibroch
Performer: Angus MacDonald.- Scottish Bagpipes.
- Naive.
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Pandit Pran Nath
Raga Darbari
Performer: Pandit Pran Nath.- Pandit Pran Nath : Raga Darbari.
- Gramavision.
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Hildegard von Bingen
o quam magnum miraculum
Performer: Sequentia.- Ordo Virtutum.
- Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony no.104 in D major 'London' (4th mvt)
Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.- Haydn, 12 London Symphonies: Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles.
- Naive.
- 12.
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Jean-Baptiste Dupuits
Tambourin (from Oeuvre III, Sonate I)
Performer: Matthias Loibner & Riccardo Delfino.- CPO.
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Franz Schubert
Der Leiermann (Winterreise, D.911)
Singer: Dietrich Fischer鈥怐ieskau. Performer: Alfred Brendel.- Philips.
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Trad
The Peacock followed the Hen
Performer: Kathryn Tickell.- On Kielder Side.
- Saydisc.
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Trad
Mary The Maid
Performer: Kathryn Tickell.- Borderlands.
- Black Crow.
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Johannes Brahms
Herr, lehre doch mich (A German Requiem)
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. Singer: Eberhard Waechter. Choir: Wiener Singverein. Singer: Gundula Janowitz. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.- 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 3.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Fantasia in C minor BWV 537
Performer: Peter Hurford.- Great Organ Works.
- DECCA.
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Charlemagne Palestine
Schlongo!!!daLUVdrone
Performer: Charlemagne Palestine.- Cortical.
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Steve Reich
Four Organs
Performer: Steve Reich. Performer: Steve Chambers. Performer: Philip Glass. Performer: Art Murphy.- Steve Reich - Four Organs - Phase Patterns.
- Newtone.
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The Velvet Underground
Heroin
Performer: The Velvet Underground.- The Velvet Underground & Nico.
- Verve Records.
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La Monte Young
Composition 1960 #7
Performer: La Monte Young. -
La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela
The Tamburas of Pandit Pran Nath
Performer: La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela.- The Tamburas Of Pandit Pran Nath.
- Just Dreams.
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Phill Niblock
Hurdy Hurry
Performer: Jim O鈥橰ourke.- Touch Works, For Hurdy Gurdy and Voice.
- TOUCH.
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脡liane Radigue
Jetsun Mila
Performer: 脡liane Radigue.- Jetsun Mila.
- Lovely Music.
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A Winged Victory for the Sullen
A Symphony Pathetique
Performer: A Winged Victory for the Sullen.- A Winged Victory for the sullen.
- Erased Tapes Records.
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Alan Lamb
Night Passage
Performer: Alan Lamb.- A new guide to sound sculpture vol.1.
- FMR.
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G茅rard Grisey
Transitoires
Performer: Asko Ensemble. Performer: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Performer: Stefan Asbury.- Les Espaces Acoustiques.
- Kairos.
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