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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: rednightmare on 25 Feb 2009, 23:36
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...and gets progressively faster. Does anybody know if there is a special name for this?
I am thinking of the same sort of thing that you hear in some folk music/dances; where the beat just picks up until pretty much everybody collapses. The reason I ask is that I am specifically looking for some music that does this. I know it exists but I have no idea what to look for.
If you don't know a name for it but have a recommendation or two I am happy with that as well.
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All post-rock.
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Do you mean like in Rockets fall on Rocket Falls by GY!BE?
Because then it's like what the above poster said
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There's probably some technical term he's looking for. "Sturm und Drang" pops into my head, but I don't think that's it.
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It's basically been covered.
But there are also a couple other examples.
Turisas - Jagisleif (I can't remember how to spell this)
65daysofstatic are pretty good at this
But yeah, most post-rock will do that for you.
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You mean something like Zorba's Dance by Gypsy Kings?
To be honest a lot of music starts slow then gets faster, even some classical pieces.
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'Commercial Break' by Blur.
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Does anybody know if there is a special name for this?
Accelerando?
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Accelerando is the musical term for acceleration. That will probably help you out in a classical sense, I don't know about modern music.
You mentioned folk music - the tarantella is the classic representation of that concept. Again, it might not help you in conversation about modern music.
Good luck!
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Klesmer/polka is very good at this, although rynne had the best answer.
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All most post-rock.
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Gogol Bordello does this occasionally: starting slow and picking up the pace until it reaches a furious breaking point of energy.
also, the song "There's So Many Colors" by Akron/Family sort of does this, but really i just use any excuse i can to recommend that song to people because it is pretty much the best.
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Suicidal Tendencies, "Institutionalized" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoF_a0-7xVQ) - something like that?
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Melanie's "Groundhog Day (Alternate Version)" is the best example I can think of. It starts out quiet and slow and works it way up to what sounds like three drummers and a gong.
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"Overcome (The Recapitulation)" by RX Bandits is a good example of this.
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A lot of Mono does that.
The Flames Beyond the Cold Mountain, Lost Snow, Yearning, some others too,
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Waves of Grain- Two Gallants
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The composer Conlon Nancarrow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conlon_Nancarrow) composed a lot of music to be played mechanically , by a player piano (this is before the days of MIDI). He used changes of tempo as an important part of his palette (viewing different tempi as a kind of scale), and wrote some pieces in which there are two parts, one of which gets faster through the piece while the other simultaneously gets slower.
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Thanks for all the replies about this. Accelerando is definitely what I was looking for. I was looking for something a little different that what you get out of most post rock bands as they tend to get noisier rather than faster. That said I will listen to the reccomendations on here.
I already knew about Gogol Bordello and some of their music definitely comes to mind. The Tarantella is exactly the sort of thing I was thinking of, though I am hoping to find examples of it in modern music. Looking around there are also some occasions where Faust did this in case anybody else is curious.
I am going to check out Conlon Nancarrow because that sounds really interesting to me.
Thanks again for the help.
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I've put a little Nancarrow in the mediafire thread, though it's for a human not a player piano!
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go find the wine song by the cat empire
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Bolero? :-D
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That gets louder, not faster. Ravel criticised performances that didn't keep the tempo steady.
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I'm pretty sure that wasn't his favorite piece either