Tag: masque de la mort rouge

• What’s tonality? Who’s André Caplet?

  February 26, 2012

  Chamber music, Orchestral, String Quartet, Tone Poem, Uncategorized, Vocal

  andré caplet, Edgar Allan Poe, masque de la mort rouge, masque of the red death, Mass

  Two very good questions: the first is central to our understanding of western music and particularly of the way it ‘evolved’ during the 19th and 20th centuries. Not that easy to explain without loads of jargon: I’ll do my best! (…for those of you who want to follow Schönberg as he takes his first nervous(?)…