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Ionisation (1929–1931) is a musical composition by Edgard Varèse written for thirteen percussionists. It was among the first concert hall compositions for percussion ensemble alone, although Alexander Tcherepnin had composed an entire movement for percussion alone in his Symphony No. 1 from 1927. [ 1 ]
But it was Edgard Varèse's Ionisation that "opened the floodgates" [1] and truly brought the percussion ensemble into the fold of contemporary composition. Premiered in 1933 under the baton of Nicholas Slonimsky , Ionisation is thematically structured and makes use of 13 performers playing over 30 different instruments, including Latin ...
The record was the first release on LP of Integrales, Density 21.5, Ionisation and Octandre and featured René Le Roy, flute, the Juilliard Percussion Orchestra and the New York Wind Ensemble conducted by Frederic Waldman.
The fifth and sixth of his Rítmicas, composed around the same time as Edgard Varèse's Ionisation, were among the first works in the Western classical music tradition scored for percussion ensemble alone. [3] In Motivos de son (1934) he wrote eight pieces for voice and instruments based on the poet Nicolas Guillen's set of poems with the same ...
Varese, Edgard: Integrales/Density 21.5/Ionization/Octandre. Rene le Roy, flute; Juilliard Percussion Orchestra and New York Wind Ensemble conducted by Frederic Waldman. EMS went out on a limb with this record, but music lovers, hi-fi addicts, composers, and EMS never regretted it. Frank Zappa has said he was influenced by this music.
Pages in category "Percussion ensembles" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. Percussion ensemble; A.
This cantata has a total playing time of 11 minutes. It is scored for a solo bass (or male chorus in the revised version) and an atypical ensemble: four trumpets, four trombones, a piano, an organ, two theremins (changed to two ondes Martenot in the revised version), and a large percussion section for six percussionists, consisting of timpani, two snare drums, two tenor drums, three bass drums ...
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