{"id":4375,"date":"2012-11-26T15:07:14","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T20:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=4375"},"modified":"2012-11-26T15:07:14","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T20:07:14","slug":"canto-ostinato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2012\/11\/26\/canto-ostinato\/","title":{"rendered":"Canto Ostinato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<object width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/JDCsOL2vBJc?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/JDCsOL2vBJc?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m not sure whether it&#8217;s a personal failure or a more general Dutch failing that we don&#8217;t know our best musical talents, but it took the obituary of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Simeon_ten_Holt\">Simeon ten Holt<\/a> to hear his most famous composition, the <em>Canto Ostinato<\/em>, written in 1976 &#8211; 1979. As you notice after a few minutes listening, it &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.canto-ostinato.com\/pages\/cantoostinato.html\">consists of small, entirely tonal cells which are repeated<\/a>&#8220;, with the duration of any performance left to the performers. Usually played on two or four pianos, it has also been adapted to other instruments, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HjpzKWP4qE8\">like the harp<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s a beautiful piece of music and while firmly in the classical musical tradition, you could almost describe it as a post-punk composition: experimental, minimalist and stripped down to the bare essence but grounded in traditional virtues of musical craft nonetheless&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure whether it&#8217;s a personal failure or a more general Dutch failing that we don&#8217;t know our best musical talents, but it took the obituary of Simeon ten Holt to hear his most famous composition, the Canto Ostinato, written in 1976 &#8211; 1979. As you notice after a few minutes listening, it &#8220;consists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[236,42,242],"tags":[1704,1705,1706],"class_list":["post-4375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-oh-those-crazy-cloggies","category-video","tag-canto-ostinato","tag-simeon-ten-holt","tag-tendentious-comparisons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4377,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375\/revisions\/4377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}