{"id":55,"date":"2021-12-16T00:33:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T08:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sarahchapeskie.ca\/?p=55"},"modified":"2021-12-16T00:33:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T08:33:16","slug":"the-sith-liszt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahchapeskie.ca\/index.php\/2021\/12\/16\/the-sith-liszt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sith Liszt?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One comes across interesting things while studying music history late at night&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to the first three notes (after the two introductory <em>pizzicato <\/em>chords) of this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zDEem_aEttE\n<\/div><figcaption>Symphonic poem <em>Les Pr\u00e9ludes<\/em> by Franz Liszt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now listen to this next track at 1:45 (turn your volume down&#8211;it is louder than the first example):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Sith Lords - Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II soundtrack\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/djowEg4wewM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Excerpt from the soundtrack to the video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, composed by Mark Griskey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The rhythm is slightly different, but it is the same three notes, C-B-E, in that lovely, low, brooding, ominous register!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This makes me very happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One comes across interesting things while studying music history late at night&#8230; Listen to the first three notes (after the two introductory pizzicato chords) of this: Now listen to this next track at 1:45 (turn your volume down&#8211;it is louder &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sarahchapeskie.ca\/index.php\/2021\/12\/16\/the-sith-liszt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,9,3,10,6,7],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-theory-and-analysis","tag-analysis","tag-liszt","tag-music","tag-music-history","tag-star-wars","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahchapeskie.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahchapeskie.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahchapeskie.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahchapeskie.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahchapeskie.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sarahchapeskie.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/sarahchapeskie.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahchapeskie.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahchapeskie.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahchapeskie.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}