Modern Art

We played this song in high school and it easily became on of my favorites. Of course, I was one of very few in my orchestra that really liked the song. Lots of things to say of this:

This is the second movement of Bela Bartok's "Concerto for Orchestra." The unique thing about that is that it's a concerto for an entire orchestra. Typically concertos are meant for a solo instrument, but this piece is meant to act as if the entire orchestra were a solo instrument. A second interesting part of this is that it's a modern era piece. Bartok and Picasso were born in the same year and their styles of art in paintings and music matched the style of their era. The song is fairly abstract and uses some of the more interesting techniques that came about with the modern era.

Lastly, Bartok helped found ethnomusicology and probably helped inspire this guy.