Page 12 - (DK) The Classical Music Book - Big Ideas Simply Explained
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316 In music … things 324 Volcanic, expansive,
CONTEMPORARY don’t get better or dazzling—and obsessive
worse: they evolve and Études, Gyorgy Ligeti
transform themselves
298 Sound is the vocabulary Sinfonia, Luciano Berio 325 My music is written
of nature for ears
Symphonie pour un 318 If you tell me a lie, let L’Amour de loin,
homme seul, Pierre it be a black lie Kaija Saariaho
Schaeffer/Pierre Henry Eight Songs for a Mad King,
Peter Maxwell Davies 326 Blue … like the
302 I can’t understand why sky. Where all
people are frightened of 320 The process of possibilities soar
new ideas; I’m frightened substituting beats blue cathedral,
of the old ones for rests Jennifer Higdon
4´33˝, John Cage Six Pianos, Steve Reich
328 The music uses simple
306 He has changed our 321 We were so far ahead … building blocks and
view of musical time because everyone else grows organically
and form stayed so far behind from there …
Gruppen, Einstein on the Beach, In Seven Days,
Karlheinz Stockhausen Philip Glass Thomas Adès
308 The role of the musician 322 This must be the first 329 This is the core of who
… is perpetual exploration purpose of art … to we are and what we
Pithoprakta, Iannis Xenakis change us need to be
Apocalypsis, Alleluia, Eric Whitacre
309 Close communion R. Murray Schafer
with the people is the
natural soil nourishing 323 I could start out from the 330 DIRECTORY
all my work chaos and create order
Spartacus, in it
Aram Khachaturian Fourth Symphony, 340 GLOSSARY
Witold Lutosławski
310 I was struck by the
emotional charge of 344 INDEX
the work
Threnody for the
Victims of Hiroshima,
Krzysztof Penderecki 351 QUOTE ATTRIBUTIONS
312 Once you become an ism,
what you’re doing is dead 352 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
In C, Terry Riley
314 I desire to carve … a
single painful tone as
intense as silence itself
November Steps,
Toru Takemitsu
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