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Cowell
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1925
– Screeching sounds made from the strings inside the piano
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Cowell
1923
(sounds like Keyshia Cole’s “Love”)
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-Nothing is added inside the piano. The sound comes from inside the piano.
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Study #1 for Player Piano |
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Nancarrow
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1938
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(sounds like a videogame)
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-Demonstrates composers’ concern for mechanical control of their music. Machine plays by itself.
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Varese
1922
Internal tensions. Held together by rhythmic energy. (He likes sirens) *Tension = drum symbals and horns
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Feldman
1963
Universally soft music. Meditative. Calm soundscape.
(you can hear soft bass drum rolls and maybe a triangle. Every now and then there will be a female voice singing on sustained note)
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Fonville
1981
for solo flute
Key clicks can be heard (there’s even a section of just key tapping and just some wind blowing). Shows her interest in dance.
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The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs |
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Cage
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1942
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Singer is accompanied by piano (but with keyboard closed) so it is used for percussion purposes.
-Chant like voice ; crescendo
-Little dynamic
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Berio
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1965
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Unaccompanied voice is used to make sound
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Berio
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1968
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Layered sound for memory component. “St. Anthony” can be heard in the background.
-Music while people are talking
-(Might sound like a theme park w/people talking while music is playing)
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Ancient Voices of Children
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Mvts.3 ; 4
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Crumb
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1970
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-Female singer is singing into piano in beginning
-Eventually piano comes in and percussion plays and you can hear people talking. Sounds a bit scary, like satanic children. *Sounds like a tribe chant
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4th mvt=calm, soft singing
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Eight Songs for a Mad King
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Numbers 6-8
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Davies
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1971
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“Theater piece”
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You can hear lots of clarinet and it can get scary sometimes and makes me think of “Great Mouse Detective.” The guy talking sounds crazy and says “I’m nervous” a lot.
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Near the end some instruments come in like piano and percussion, but he sounds like an insane guy singing?
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Varese
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1958
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Synthesized sounds. (Think of space?)
-Uses “live” sounds and is assimilated into an electronic composition, and the manipulated.
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Gaburo
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1967
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Sounds are separated apart by silence.
– There are some horns, and some female voices randomly singing sustained operatic notes.
*Electronic tape with live performers.
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