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Our Composition

Textural Music

  • Inspiration: R. Murray Shafer’s Miniwanka (Moments of Water)

-Imitates water sounds

-Uses words related to water from 10 North American Indian Languages

-Graphic notation allows collaboration with composer

  • Global notation for the clusters interrupted by sudden consonances
  • Micropolyphony/fugue: excerpt from Entry of the Gladiators by Julius Fucik
  • Percussive effects: spring drum, ribbed rhythm sticks, conversation, jingle bell, triangle, piano lid, footsteps
  • Piano effects: glissandos, chromatic scales, interior resonance
  • Electronic panning

Taymaz Saba, Jocelyn Molnar, Jessica De Gaust, Monica Sowinski

Composers of the 1960s

Krzysztof Penderecki

  • 1956: end of Stalinism and liberation of Communism

  • Threnody: for the Victims of Hiroshima (Originally 8:37) (1960)

-Considered best known piece of textural style

-Tone poem for string orchestra

-For 52 string instruments

-Modified ABA’

-Timbre delineates 5 large sections

1. High pitches clusters

2. Novel string techniques

3. Sustained tones + quarter tone clusters linked by glissandi

4. Isolated pitches + various sound effects in canon

5. Unison sound effects + clusters leading to final chord

  • Had to invent new notation symbols, later adopted by other composers

Characteristics

  • Sound mass is elemental building block
  • Contratimbral organization: succession of timbres

-Non-pitched sounds

-Sounds of indeterminate pitch

-Percussive sounds

-Electronic/recorded sounds

  • Gradual/sudden processes of change
  • Cluster chords
  • Glissandos
  • Extended instrumental techniques
  • Striking sound combinations
  • Graphic notation/symbols

Origins

Composers of the 1960s

György Ligeti

  • 1920s: Ultramodernist trend

  • Anton Webern

-Liberation of texture with pointillism

-Ligeti's article: Webern's Melodik

-Five Pieces for String Quartet, Op. 5 No. 4

  • Henry Cowell

-Tone clusters in The Tides of Manaunaun

  • Edgard Varèse

-Sound is spatial

-Liberates composition from traditional treatments

-Form is end result

  • Iannis Xenakis

-Engineer, architect, composer

-"Stochastic" processes

-Metastaseis (1953-4)

  • 1956: Left Hungary for the West
  • Polyphonic structures “neutralize” individual lines, intervals and rhythms
  • Sense of gradual surging and receding of sound complexes
  • Form is freely conceived
  • Created “micropolyphony”

  • Three pieces made famous from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.

-Lux Aeterna (1966) - 16 solo singers and chorus

• Expands upwards and downward by adding a dense mix of pitches above and below it

-Atmosphères (1961) - almost a single cloud, drifting through different regions of colour, harmony and texture

• 56 muted strings, a selection of woodwinds and horns playing simultaneously all the chromatic notes through a five octave range

-Requiem (1963-65) Lacrimosa: resulting hazy clusters are suddenly replaced by the clear light of simple intervals

  • Did not accept Penderecki’s ideas of “global notation”

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