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Monthly Archives: October, 2008

Flos Ut Rosa Floruit

Written by Yuri on October 31, 2008 — Leave a Comment

A Notre Dame conductus from sometime around 1200. I’m worn out from writing admissions essays. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLARJR8MLq8[/youtube] This is haunting — only the most perfect consonances were treated as such; octaves and fifths are very common.  I am reminded of Arvo Part’s thinking in which he grants each line its own identity.  Here, the upper voices [...]

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Stevie Wonder – I Don’t Know Why, For Once In My Life

Written by Yuri on October 31, 2008 — Leave a Comment

Wow — the difference in quality in writing and composition between these two songs is pretty staggering, but Stevie absolutely was learning as he went.  The return of Diana Ross in this one, for those who were wondering what was about to happen after that last clip a few days ago. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlHf-v2DgOk[/youtube] It’s pretty striking [...]

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Yuri Broze

Yuri Broze is a music guru and sciencehead currently pursuing a PhD in Music Theory and an MS in Statistics at Ohio State University. His current academic haunt is the Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Laboratory, spearheaded by David Huron. Yuri is an award-winning choral arranger, has written on a cappella arranging, teaches piano lessons, tinkers with websites, and smells hardbound books.