I have now completed project three and am ready to do the next theory module before tackling assignment two. Haven’t yet decided which genre to tackle on this, but have been thinking of doing serialism.
Attached are my notes for project three:
11 Sunday Mar 2012
Posted 7. New Instrumental Sounds
inI have now completed project three and am ready to do the next theory module before tackling assignment two. Haven’t yet decided which genre to tackle on this, but have been thinking of doing serialism.
Attached are my notes for project three:
11 Sunday Mar 2012
Posted 7. New Instrumental Sounds
inThis is a solo vocal work, mainly for comic purposes making statements and using onomatopoeia. It is a bit like performance poetry, but sung in an orderly manner by the soprano.
For my own graphic score I chose a couple of scenes from the 1993 film The Posse. I used images within word along with word art graphics for the text to compile the score.
Attached is my effort:
11 Sunday Mar 2012
Posted 7. New Instrumental Sounds
inIn researching unusual notations I found it difficult to find examples on the internet. As most composers who have used these new systems are not yet in the public domain, it is quite hard to find music with this notation without buying it. I did however find some examples.
Grovemusiconline had a sample of Stockhausen’s Klavierstück X. This small sample did not include pluses or minuses but did have a lot of quite unusual markings. A lot of note heads are filled in without stems but with beams linked by vertical lines. Parallel lines liked by vertical lines are in fact a major feature throughout the segment featured. Dotted vertical lines leading to semi-breves and minims above the stave lines are another feature. Other lines between the two staves, vertical, horizontal and diagonal also feature.
Another Stockhausen work, the tutti from Gruppen, was available on-line which is an electronic score of lines, graphs, numbers and letters that I think relate to recorded samples. Gruppen is scored for taped music and orchestra.
I did find articles on-line about unusual notations, including some based on much older music, but graphics of modern alternative notation were few and far between. There are however plenty of example of graphic scores for the next part of the project.
10 Saturday Mar 2012
Posted 7. New Instrumental Sounds
inHaving listened to Steve Reich’s Drumming a couple of times there are striking similarities to this work. The two clapping parts start to change rhythmically and in tempo from quite early in the work and drift apart slowly.
The instruments, i.e. your hands are the most basic instrument you can use and the work can in theory be performed by almost anyone with a grasp of rhythm. Clapping is used as accompaniment to a lot of popular music. It can be used to set a rhythmic background to a work in a similar way that the bass is used in jazz and other modern genres.
I think the music works well. I liked Drumming as well. The changes in tempo and rhythm of the two parts work in a harmonic way, whilst retaining separate individual rhythmic patterns.