Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
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.
Old Symphony: 4: Sardinian Symphony: 5: Sarda Symphony: 6–9: Sinfonia Breve: Short Symphony: 1960s: He wrote 3 of these symphonies. The 2nd was written in 1963. 10: Sinfonia imitanda: Imitative Symphony: 1957: 11–15: Sinfonia Mazedonia: Macedonian Symphony: 1963–87: He wrote 4 of these symphonies 16–17: Preclassical Symphony: He wrote 2 ...
Symphony No. 2, Op. 28 (1899) [8] Alexander Glazunov: Symphony No. 6, Op. 58 (1896) Reinhold Glière: Symphony No. 2, Op. 25 (1907–08) Edvard Grieg: Symphony in C minor, EG 119 (1863–64) Johan Halvorsen: Symphony No. 1 (1923) Asger Hamerik: Symphony in C minor, Op. 3 (1860, lost) Symphony No. 2 "Symphonie tragique", Op. 32 (1882–83) [9 ...
He composed One 3, the full title of which is One 3 = 4′33″ (0′00″) + [G Clef]. As in all of the Number Pieces, 'One' refers to the number of performers required. The score instructs the performer to build a sound system in the concert hall, so that "the whole hall is on the edge of feedback, without actually feeding back". The content ...
Michael Haydn's Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, Perger 51, Sherman 4, MH 62, was written in Salzburg, completed on December 7, 1763.Charles H. Sherman's modern edition of this work has been published by Musikverlag Doblinger and also appears in an anthology from Garland Publishing that includes symphonies by Anton Cajetan Adlgasser and Johann Ernst Eberlin, two other Salzburg composers.