Author: brycon
Date: 2020-07-04 19:43
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Similarly (and more to the point of integral serialism having "nothing left to say" after a certain point), you can look at the highly varied output of Stockhausen across works like Stimmung, Mantra, Sirius, the Licht cycle, and certain pieces from the Klang cycle and observe ways in which compositional techniques typically associated with 12-tone or serial composition—but also found in certain works of Bach—were re-purposed to explore different (non-serialized) musical materials. (There are also plenty of singable tunes in Sirius and Licht, if this is any metric to go by.)
Thanks for the recs! When the Met Museum put on Klang several years ago, I had a number of friends and classmates performing and went to as many of the concerts as I could. To make sense of it, I would need many re-listenings. I remember, in the moment, simply being struck by the grandness and also the weirdness of it all.
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Musical kitsch aside, expression and ideology are more often than not two sides of the same coin—regardless of the musical aesthetic.
Excellent point. Certainly any self-professed absence of ideology is itself an ideological position.
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