Not exact matches
With its flowing harmonies, «Disobedience» works equally well as an example of modern
classical music at its most thankfully harmonious, Herbert dresses strings lines over each other with gossamer delicateness in a way that's also reminiscent of the hypnotic film works of ephemeral
composer Michael Convertino («Bed or Roses») in a way that awakens with its womens» growing self empowerment, also calling to the ear
such diverse, ultra-melodic
composers as Claude Debussy and Richard Wagner.
One could argue that the original Fantasia only used
classical compositions, and the couple of original pieces that
composer Inon Zur (best known for contributing to game soundtracks
such as Fallout 3, Dragon Age: Origins, and Soul Calibur V) adds are great, but then why do we have to deal with Lady Gaga and Nicki Minaj?
Uematsu went for a decidedly less
classical style, and other Japanese
composers went for modern pop and rock (
such as Falcom's «Sound Team JDK»).
It brings together leading avant - garde
composers of the early postwar period
such as Elliot Carter, Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen; pioneers of electroacoustic music
such as François Bayle, Pauline Oliveros, Iannis Xenakis and Peter Zinovieff; minimalist and Fluxus - inspired artist - musicians
such as Tony Conrad, Henry Flynt, Phil Niblock, Yoko Ono, Steve Reich and Terry Riley; and figures that have moved between
classical / experimental realms and more pop terrain,
such as Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, Howie B., Arto Lindsay and Caetano Veloso.
Birnbaum's more recent work Arabesque (2011) abandons
such anachronistic technology to apply a feminist critique to the history of
classical music, invoking the story of Robert Schumann and his wife Clara, a 19th - century
composer couple whose artistic talents were more equally matched than their relative levels of renown would suggest.
Contemporary
classical composers study concepts
such as musical unity and variation in the works of the great masters.