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Some composers have discussed the significance of silence or a silent composition without ever composing such a work. In his 1907 manifesto, Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music, Ferruccio Busoni described its significance: [1] That which, within our present-day music, most nearly approaches the essential of the art, is the Rest and the Hold (Pause).
The entrance of the oboe is marked monotone, and the essentially sad music shifts in tonality towards the close. [2] A reviewer from The New York Times described the sonata as a "paradoxical mix of the elegiac, the suave and the clever". [1] Poulenc's wind sonatas share thematic material.
International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) 799,000 Public domain music scores (720,000) and recordings (79,000), including some contemporary composers. International Music Score Library Project: Inventions of Note: popular music, technology: 50 Sheet music for popular songs and piano compositions, mostly 1890–1920. Lewis Music Library ...
The entire handwritten score for the Monotone-Silence Symphony, showing the extreme sparsity of the work. The Monotone-Silence Symphony (French: Symphonie Monoton-Silence) is a piece of minimalist music by the French artist Yves Klein. It consists of 20 minutes of an orchestra performing the chord of D major, followed by a 20 minute silence. [1 ...
cross-indexing of choral music using criteria including musical genre, period, and number and voicing of choral parts; composer information; description and performance considerations can be included for works; contents of collections of choral music; community discussion such as through "Talk" pages related to composers or specific works.
Yves Klein, whose Monotone Symphony (formally The Monotone-Silence Symphony, premiered in 1960, synonym conceived in 1947–1948) is an orchestral 40-minute piece whose first movement is an unvarying 20-minute drone and the second and last movement a 20-minute silence, [1] [2] predating by several years both the drone music works of La Monte ...
Linda Phillips was born in Melbourne in 1899 to Joseph Phillips (1859 – 6 April 1929) who was born in Lithuania of Russian descent and became a naturalized Australian in 1891, and Augusta Polack (25 December 1872, Melbourne – 12 October 1940). [1]
Musical compositions for which the composer is unknown. Pages in category "Anonymous musical compositions" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.