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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 ...
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).
Music is available for free download in a variety of formats, including score images in PDF, PS and TIFF format, sound files in MIDI and MP3 formats, and in the notation formats supported by various notation programs, including Finale, Sibelius, NoteWorthy Composer, Encore, and the open source GNU LilyPond.
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 ...
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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.
This is a list of composers by name, alphabetically sorted by surname, then by other names.The list of composers is by no means complete. It is not limited by classifications such as genre or time period; however, it includes only music composers of significant fame, notability or importance who also have current Wikipedia articles.