The Banshee

Cowell

 

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1925

 

– Screeching sounds made from the strings inside the piano

Aeolian Harp

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.

Study #1 for Player Piano

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.

Hyperprism

Varese

 

1922

 

Internal tensions. Held together by rhythmic energy. (He likes sirens)
*Tension = drum symbals and horns

Vertical Thoughts

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)

Music for Sarah

Mvt.II

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.

The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs

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

Sequenza III

Berio

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1965

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Unaccompanied voice is used to make sound

Sinfonia

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Section III

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)

Ancient Voices of Children

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Mvts.3 ; 4

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

Eight Songs for a Mad King

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Numbers 6-8

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?

Poeme Electronique

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.

Antiphony IV

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.