Karlheinz Stockhausen Essays

  • How Salman Changed My Life

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    Life always changes because of someone or something, so did my life changed. In a short period time, my nephew “Salman” left a huge impact in my life. Although did not exceed seven years, but he showed me how to become happy and hopeful with my life through his lovely smile. He also helped me to realize who I am, and what I want to become in my future career. I will always see him as my angle, and my little hero. I used to be afraid of little children, they always scared me with their giant and

  • Ever Heard of Chance Music?

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    was intended by Boulez to distinguish his work from works composed through the application of chance operations by John Cage and his aesthetic of indeterminacy - see indeterminate music. Other examples of aleatoric music are Klavierstück XI by Stockhausen which features a number of elements to be performed in changing sequences and characteristic sequences to be repeated fast, producing a special kind of oscillating sound, in orchestral works of Lutoslawski and Penderecki. An early genre of composition

  • Serialism

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    understand it. Twelve tone music which was established by Schoenberg is often referred to as serialism, but strictly speaking serialism is the sequel to Schoenberg’s works, and came about in the late 1940’s. Composers, led by Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen started to apply Schoenberg’s 12-tone principle to more than just pitch. To recap, Schoenberg created tone rows, where the 12 different pitch classes of the scale are arranged in a particular order, then inverted, then played in reverse (retrograd

  • The Impact Of The Beatles's Influence: The Beatles

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    “The cover shows the Beatles as bandsmen surrounded by effigies of several dozen historical figures, living and dead, including Karl Marx, Marilyn Monroe, W.C. Fields, Oscar Wilde, Marlon Brando, Bob Dylan, Mohandas K. Ghandi, Shirley Temple, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Albert Einstein”, (Crawford 492). In this album the band was creating music by another, imaginary band, outside of

  • 1920's Baroque Style

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    Baroque style in art and music was filled with action, movement, and drama. Influenced by the wishes and wealth of the aristocracy, and shaped by the needs of the churches, baroque style has become associated with magnificence and beauty. There were entirely new approaches to the organization of pitch and rhythm and a vast expansion in the vocabulary of sounds especially percussive sounds. Some compositions broke with traditions sharply that they were met with violent hostility which led to the famous

  • The Enduring Benefits of Graphic Notation

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    The proliferation of graphic scores emerging in Europe and America from the mid-1950s has had a profound impact on musical thought, broadening links between performers and composers, audiences and art forms. Exploration of notational methods based on graphics flourished rapidly and diversely during the fifties and sixties, primarily as a trend amongst young radicals. So many composers producing scores of this kind used a personal vocabulary of symbols – often creating different notation systems

  • Le Corbusier: Philips Pavilion, Brussels, 1958

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    Le Corbusier: Philips Pavilion, Brussels, 1958 Located in a small site next to the Dutch section and away from the center of the fair, the pavilion hosted a futuristic multimedia display featuring images, colored lighting and music and sounds called the "Poème Electronique." Some of the greatest artistic minds of the twentieth century were involved in its creation, including the architect Le Corbusier (1887-1965) and the composer Edgard Varèse (1883-1965). But most importantly, the Philips Pavilion