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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 ...
Monotone-Silence Symphony (1949), by Yves Klein; in two movements, a single 20-minute sustained chord followed by a 20-minute silence [7] 4′33″ (1952) by John Cage (1912–1992) silent; in three movements lasting a total of four minutes and 33 seconds, for any instrument or combination of instruments. 4'33" No. 2 (1962) by John Cage
Between 1947 and 1948, [6] Klein conceived his Monotone Symphony (1949, formally Monotone Silence Symphony) that consisted of a single 20-minute sustained D major chord followed by a 20-minute silence [7] [8] – a precedent to Klein's later monochrome paintings and to the work of minimal musicians, particularly La Monte Young's drone music and ...
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 ...
Around the modest entrance of the Iris Clert Gallery was a large blue drapery, and on "guard" were two Republican Guards in full regalia, whose presence Iris Clert had gained through one of her many connections, and two additional "bodyguards," in reality a couple of Klein's judo friends, ironically meant to guard the guards.
The Piano form of the symphony was published, in fact being the only symphony part of Vanjura's Trois Sinfonies Nationales to be published during the composer's lifetime. From this, the orchestration was done by Mykhailo Verykivsky , however Margarita Pavlovna Prâšnikova rediscovered the original score of all 3.
Silent compositions of the twentieth century preceding Cage's include the 'In futurum' movement from the Fünf Pittoresken (1919) by Erwin Schulhoff—solely comprising rests— [19] and Yves Klein's Monotone–Silence Symphony (1949), in which the second and fourth movements are bare twenty minutes of silence. [17]
Symphony No. 1, Op. 2 (1831–33) [6] Antonio Casimir Cartellieri: Symphony No. 1 (1795) Alfredo Casella: Symphony No. 2, Op. 12 (1908–09) Frederic Cliffe: Symphony No. 1 (1889) [7] Frederic Hymen Cowen: Symphony No. 1 (1869) Symphony No. 3 "Scandinavian" (1880) Carl Czerny: Symphony No. 1 "Grand Symphony", Op. 781 Antonín Dvořák