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Tierkreis (Stockhausen)
''Tierkreis'' (1974–75) is a musical composition by the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. The title is the German word for Zodiac, and the composition consists of twelve melodies, each representing one sign of the zodiac. History Once described as "melodic naïveté" in the form of "cheerful, empty-headed little tune , who nevertheless soon changed his mind, ''Tierkreis'' has proved to be Stockhausen's most popular composition. ''Tierkreis'' was originally written for music boxes as a component part of a theater piece for percussion sextet titled ''Musik im Bauch'' (Music in the Belly), which has been interpreted variously as "a fairy tale for children" or else as "a ritual played out in Mexican Indian scenery". These twelve melodies (with or without their accompaniments) form an autonomous work which can be played by any suitable instrument, and exist also in versions to be sung. The striking simplicity of the melodies has led some writers to see them (together with other o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Character Piece
A character piece is a musical composition which is expressive of a specific mood or non-musical idea. History The first appearance of the term "character piece" is in the ''avertissement'' (preface) to Marin Marais's fifth book of viola da gamba music published in 1725. He writes that ''pièces de caractère'' are now received favorably by the public, so he has decided to insert many of them. Marais's pieces such as "La Petite Badinage" and "Dialogue" have descriptive, literary titles, as opposed to the ordinary titles of stylized dances such as the allemande and courante. In German, the term ''Charakterstück'' was originally used to denote a broad range of 19th-century piano music based on a single idea or program, although attempts to use musical effects to describe nonmusical subjects are “probably as old as music itself.” Character pieces are a staple of Romantic music, and are essential to that movement's interest in the evocation of particular moods or moments. What ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timbre
In music, timbre (), also known as tone color or tone quality (from psychoacoustics), is the perceived sound of a musical note, sound or tone. Timbre distinguishes sounds according to their source, such as choir voices and musical instruments. It also enables listeners to distinguish instruments in the same category (e.g., an oboe and a clarinet, both woodwinds). In simple terms, timbre is what makes a particular musical instrument or human voice have a different sound from another, even when they play or sing the same note. For instance, it is the difference in sound between a guitar and a piano playing the same note at the same volume. Both instruments can sound equally tuned in relation to each other as they play the same note, and while playing at the same amplitude level each instrument will still sound distinctive with its own unique tone color. Musicians distinguish instruments based on their varied timbres, even instruments playing notes at the same pitch and volume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Hussong
Stefan Hussong (born 2 November 1962) is a German classical accordionist. He has received numerous awards for his performances, including the Gaudeamus International Competition for Performers for contemporary classical music, and was named best instrumentalist of the year by ECHO Klassik. Life Born in , Püttlingen, Hussong studied with Eugen Tschanun, Hugo Noth, Joseph Macerollo and Mayumi Miyata at the Trossingen University of Music, Toronto and Tokyo Conservatories (Geijutsu Daigaku). In 1983, he won first prize in the Hugo Herrmann Competition. His work as a soloist is shared with many orchestras, such as the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Harmonia Chamber Orchestra, the Klangforum Wien and the Ensemble Modern. He has joined musicians such as violinist Irvine Arditti and cellists Julius Berger (cellist), Julius Berger and Miklós Perényi. He is a professor of classical accordion and chamber music at the Hochschule für Musik Würz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Svoboda
Michael Svoboda (born 1960) is an American composer and trombonist who lives and works in Switzerland. Life Born in Guam, Svoboda grew up in Chicago and studied composition and conducting at the University of Illinois. In 1981, he came to Germany on the basis of a composition prize. There, he studied trombone at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. From 1984 to 1995, he worked as a performer with Karlheinz Stockhausen. Svoboda lives in Switzerland where he has been teaching as Professor for contemporary chamber music and trombone at the Musikhochschule Basel since 2007. Work In guest appearances at the Royal Opera House, La Scala and other opera houses, he impersonated Lucifer in Stockhausen's opera cycle ''Licht''. He has also worked as a trombonist with composers such as Péter Eötvös, Heinz Holliger, Toshio Hosokawa, Helmut Lachenmann, Wolfgang Rihm, Martin Smolka and Frank Zappa and has premiered more than four hundred works to date. From 1995, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Françoise Kubler
Françoise Kubler (born in 1958) is a French operatic soprano who has distinguished herself both as an interpreter of New Music and in the field of free improvisation. Career Kubler, who studied at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg and then met Cathy Berberian and Dorothy Dorow, founded the ensemble ''Accroche Note'' in 1981 with Armand Angster, a formation which is mainly dedicated to improvisation. Her repertoire as a classical singer ranges from Franz Schubert to classical modernism and contemporary repertoire. She has worked with composers such as John Cage, Franco Donatoni, Iannis Xenakis, Robert Crumb and György Ligeti and renowned orchestras such as the Ensemble InterContemporain or the Ictus Ensemble, also conducted by Pierre Boulez, David Robertson and Peter Eötvös. Kubler has premiered numerous vocal compositions, some of which are also available in their interpretation on records, for example by Ivo Malec, Marc Monnet, Georges Aperghis, James Dillon, Anne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armand Angster
Armand Angster (born 20 January 1947) is a French clarinetist. With Françoise Kubler (soprano), he is the founder of the ensemble "Accroche Note", research and creative formation in contemporary music. Career Born in Strasbourg, Angster's mastery of the different clarinets (soprano, bass clarinet and metal doublebass) allows him to be the dedicatee of works by contemporary composers (Brian Ferneyhough, ''Ansioso quasi con gioia'' (2015) by Stefano Gervasoni, ''La mesure des choses I. La mesure de l'air'' (1992) by Joël-François Durand,) as well as their interpreter (''Aleph'' (1985) by Philippe Manoury, ''Dikha'' by Christophe Bertrand, ''By the Way'' by Pascal Dusapin, ''Assonance III'' (1989) by Michael Jarrell). In 1981, he created in Strasbourg with Françoise Kubler the Accroche Note ensemble offering programmes combining music from yesterday and today; this ensemble is supported in particular by the Ministry of Culture and the City of Strasbourg. He is soloist in va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kunst-Station Sankt Peter
St Peter's Church (Sankt Peter) is a Roman Catholic church in Cologne, run by the Jesuits. The painter Rubens was baptised in the church and his father was later buried there. Rubens' ''Crucifixion of St Peter'' is on display in the church. It was commissioned in 1638 by the Cologne art collector and businessman Eberhard Jabach and was hung in the church in 1642 after Rubens'death. The building also houses the 'Kunst-Station Sankt Peter', a centre for contemporary art, music, and literature. History The church was constructed in the Gothic style between 1513 and on the remains of earlier Roman and Romanesque churches. It is the latest surviving Gothic church in the city. It is maintained and supported by the Förderverein Romanische Kirchen Köln The surviving Romanesque west tower dates to 1170. It and the nearby Cäcilienkirche are the city's only two surviving double-churches, which combined a parish church with a collegiate church or ''Stiftkirche''. Destruction and r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markus Stockhausen
Markus Stockhausen (born 2 May 1957) is a German trumpeter and composer. His recordings and performances have typically alternated between jazz and chamber or opera music, the latter often in collaboration with his father, composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. Biography Born in Cologne, West Germany, he is the son of composer Karlheinz Stockhausen and the pianist and pedagogue Doris Stockhausen. At age four he appeared as "child at play" in his father's theatre piece '' Originale''. He received his first piano lessons at age six, and at age twelve he began to play the trumpet. He attended the music secondary school in Cologne. Concerts and festival appearances, also for the Goethe Institute, have taken him around the world. In November 2008 he gave the first performance of ''Freedom Variations'', a composition for trumpet and chamber ensemble written by Italian composer Lorenzo Ferrero. The Markus Stockhausen Group (with Jeroen van Vliet p, Christian Thomé dr, Jörg Brinkmann ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donnerstag Aus Licht
275px, Karlheinz Stockhausens grave with the score to LICHT . (''Thursday from Light'') is an opera by Karlheinz Stockhausen in a greeting, three acts, and a farewell, and was the first of seven to be composed for the opera cycle '' Licht: die sieben Tage der Woche'' (Light: The Seven Days of the Week). It was written between 1977 and 1980, with a libretto by the composer. Its second act, ''Michaels Reise um die Erde'' (''Michael's Journey Around the Earth''), has been performed and recorded individually. History was given its staged premiere on 15 March 1981 by the La Scala Opera in the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, but without the third act, which had to be omitted due to a strike by the opera chorus of La Scala. They had demanded soloists' bonuses because of one brief passage in act 3, and had been turned down by the management. Further performances without the third act followed on 18, 21, 24, and 27 March. An agreement was finally reached and the complete opera was finally p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chamber Opera
Chamber opera is a designation for operas written to be performed with a Chamber music, chamber ensemble rather than a full orchestra. Early 20th-century operas of this type include Paul Hindemith's ''Cardillac'' (1926). Earlier small-scale operas such as Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Pergolesi's ''La serva padrona'' (1733) are sometimes known as chamber operas. Other 20th-century examples include Gustav Holst's ''Savitri (opera), Savitri'' (1916). Benjamin Britten wrote works in this category in the 1940s when the English Opera Group needed works that could easily be taken on tour and performed in a variety of small performance spaces. ''The Rape of Lucretia'' (1946) was his first example in the genre, and Britten followed it with ''Albert Herring'' (1947), ''The Turn of the Screw (opera), The Turn of the Screw'' (1954) and ''Curlew River'' (1964). Other composers, including Hans Werner Henze, Harrison Birtwistle, Thomas Adès, George Benjamin (composer), George Benjamin, William Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sirius (Stockhausen)
''Sirius'': eight-channel electronic music and trumpet, soprano, bass clarinet, and bass is a music-theatre composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen, composed between 1975 and 1977. It is Nr. 43 in the composer's catalogue of works, and lasts 96 minutes in performance. History ''Sirius'' has been described as "a modern mystery play, clothed as a science fiction story". While not described by the composer as an opera, it is nevertheless a musical drama, in which four emissaries from a planet orbiting the star Sirius bring a message to earth. "This was to be the big leap into theatre proper. ... ''Sirius'' is the key work that leads to his magnum opus LICHT (LIGHT)". When Stockhausen's daughter, Julika (aged 5 or 6 at the time), asked for a dog, he obtained one for her and named it Sirius, after the star in the constellation Canis Major, which was in his mind because he had just finished composing '' Sternklang'' ("Star-sound", 1971). Shortly afterward, he chanced upon a passage in a b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arithmetic Progression
An arithmetic progression or arithmetic sequence is a sequence of numbers such that the difference from any succeeding term to its preceding term remains constant throughout the sequence. The constant difference is called common difference of that arithmetic progression. For instance, the sequence 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, . . . is an arithmetic progression with a common difference of 2. If the initial term of an arithmetic progression is a_1 and the common difference of successive members is d, then the n-th term of the sequence (a_n) is given by :a_n = a_1 + (n - 1)d. A finite portion of an arithmetic progression is called a finite arithmetic progression and sometimes just called an arithmetic progression. The sum of a finite arithmetic progression is called an arithmetic series. History According to an anecdote of uncertain reliability, in primary school Carl Friedrich Gauss reinvented the formula \tfrac for summing the integers from 1 through n, for the case n=100, by grouping t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
