A recording of klavierstucke ixiv performed by ellen corver is available on cd 56 of the stockhausen complete edition. Stockhausens next major project in electronic music was kontakte which means contacts. This study is an analysis of how karlheinz stockhausen composed his klavierstuck xi. Books by karlheinz stockhausen author of stockhausen on. Composers, interpreters, musicologists, sound projectionists and music lovers are cordially invited to attend the stockhausen concerts.
Karlheinz stockhausens stimmung and vowel overtone singing wolfgang saus, 27. Stockhausen stimmung download free sheet music and scores. Litanei 97 litany 97 for choir and conductor stockhausen speaks an introduction in german. Avantgarde music and the new leftist spirit oup academic. Plus minus 1963, prozession 1967, kurzwellen, and spiral both 1968. Proponents of stockhausens workand writers on his music are overwhelmingly worshipfultout stimmung as a masterpiece, at once embracing new musical parameters and creating a new genre of vocal production while also offering listeners a kind of entrancing meditative space. You will regularly receive information about new scores with free downloads, current. Royal festival hall, london wolfgang lischke leads the london sinfonietta and the royal academy of. Stockhausen concerts and courses kurten 2019 for the 18 th year, the music of karlheinz stockhausen will be the focal point of nine days of concerts, interpretation courses, seminars, lectures and discussions. Prozession used prechosen stockhausen works as source material to be developed, kurzwellen utilized shortwave radio signals as input, and the intuitive texts use the supraconscious as the generative element spiral, pole and expo i consider to be. Kurzwellen was initially sketched during a tour of czechoslovakia made by stockhausen s ensemble in late march and early april 1968, and was completed soon afterward kohl 1981, 199200. Multiple challenges exist, such as the nowadays rarelyheard shortwave radio noises as well as the rarelyused electronium and tamtam.
Stockhausen was 23 years old when he composed this piece, scoring it for oboe, bass clarinet, piano and three percussionists. Theatrical elements and their relationship with music in karlheinz. Apr 23, 2018 stockhausen wanted this sound world to be part of kurzwellen. Stockhausen s unceasing curiosity and relentless selfdiscipline have led to musical discoveries of extraordinary beauty and power. Likes others, he was inventive, but his seriousness kills his fantasy. Klein 1968, 117 but also controversial power 1990, 30 composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Multiple challenges exist, such as the nowadays rarelyheard shortwave radio noises as.
This article analyzes the original dgg 19691972 recordings as well. A matrix system of serial polyphony is detailed with numerous examples drawn from stockhausens 26 pages of sketches for klavierstuck xi. Stockhausen wanted this sound world to be part of kurzwellen. In fact, a players very first event could be either a free radio event or a variation of. Despite stockhausen s perhaps somewhat mystical claims of kurzwellen s virtues, its a pretty difficult work to follow and enjoy for most people unfamiliar with abstract sound textures. Copying, exchange or multiplication, public showings other than in educational institutions, broadcasts or other commercial uses are strictly forbidden. More specifically, i present a case study comparing. After feasting 3 days in a buddhist monastery, werner dafeldecker berlin, kai fagaschinski berlin, barbara romen innsbruck, eva reiter wien, manonliu winter wien play goldstaub karlheinz stockhausen. A brief summary of the relevant aspects of schaefferian theory and analogical thought is presented.
Most of them are supplemented with musical examples. Stockhausen has published his working notes and sketches in 10 volumes of texte zur musik writings on music since 1963. These films are for private, not commercial viewing. Stockhausens lectures contain penetrating philosophical and spiritual observations on his lifelong involvement with sound and his desire to build an aural tradition. Stockhausen films dvds only for educational purposes. In kurzwellen mit beethoven, the improvisations indicated by the score of kurzwellen 36 are stimulated by four individual tapes 37 of collages of fragments of beethovens music which stockhausen prepared electronically and distorted in a way that makes them imitate shortwave broadcasts. Stockhausens overall vision, an examination of the worldview that informed and drove this exploration greatly enriches, and is in fact integral to, any discussion of the compositional techniques employed in his work. It is the first vocal work in western serious music with explicitly notated vocal overtones2, and is therefore the first classic composition for overtone singing. Pole removes the spiral sign, instead differentiating itself by addressing the polarities poles omnipresent in stockhausen s work. Stockhausen claimed that even in free jazz, in order to call it jazz, musicians are recalling certain style of.
As a student in paris in 1952 he had spent long hours listening to and analyzing the evolution of recorded sounds of ethnic musical instruments. Stockhausen has said that a composition should surprise, and that the less it reminds you of something else, the better it is. Graetz multiband radio receiver from the time of kurzwellens composition. Agp101 features the first eleven klavierstucke piano pieces by karlheinz stockhausen, performed by aloys kontarsky in 1965 and transcribed from an outofprint 2cd set.
Description, in 1975, karlheinz stockhausen wrote harlekin. Virtual capital and counterfeit music at the end of the century, leonardo music journal on deepdyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips. In this thesis, i provide such an overview, surveying the available literature on stockhausens influence on popular musicians from the late 1960s to the 2010s. Opus 1970 kurzwellen mit beethoven stockhoven beethausen. Here the focus is instrumental rather than vocal sound. Foryearsihavebeentryingto replacecertainplayers,whocannotgetawayfromwhatyouhavejustdescribed. Karlheinz stockhausens most popular book is stockhausen on music. Books by karlheinz stockhausen author of stockhausen on music. Strategies in the analysis of karlheinz stockhausens. Published on the occasion of the composers 60th birthday, the book includes a chronological list of stockhausen s works and a discography. Topics hunger, stockhausen, concert, audio, live, music, avantgarde. The premiere took place on 5 may 1968 in the television studios of radio bremen, as part of the pro musica nova festival, and is dedicated to hugo. Stockhausens unceasing curiosity and relentless selfdiscipline have led to musical discoveries of extraordinary beauty and power.
Chronology of life and work, interview, awards, cd ordering information, and samples of compositions. Pole is a duet that takes advantage of the clarity available in the mixture of electronic instruments again an electronium and electrochord with the shortwave. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. Overview of pitch and time organization in stockhausens. Same work recorded twice during two different performances. The most influential, unique voice in the musical avantgarde, with a keen sensitivity to the acoustical realities and possibilities of sound. Kurzwellen was initially sketched during a tour of czechoslovakia made by stockhausens ensemble in late march and early april 1968, and was completed soon afterward kohl 1981, 199200. Record 1 was recorded in the television studios of radio bremen on the 5th of may 1968, during the festival pro musica nova 47.
Kurzwellen short waves, for six players with shortwave radio receivers and live electronics. Stockhausen s lectures contain penetrating philosophical and spiritual observations on his lifelong involvement with sound and his desire to build an aural tradition. Kurzwellen, like prozession, was created for the ensemble with which i tour since 1964. Karlheinz stockhausen kurzwellen 1970, vinyl discogs. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at. Ensemble, karlheinz stockhausen from amazons classical music store. This collection of his writings is a composers guide to a life and music that has influenced every sphere of presentday musical practice, both classical and popular, live as well as electroacoustic.
Since january 2007 the stockhausenverlag is releasing textcds of a new series. Back in 1995, classical composer and electronic music pioneer karlheinz stockhausen 22 august 1928 5 december 2007 took the time to give a listen to some thencurrent tracks by aphex twin, plasticman, scanner and daniel pemberton while his comments are a few years old, theyre worth reading for his perspective. Karlheinz stockhausens stimmung and vowel overtone singing. A matrix system of serial polyphony is detailed with numerous examples drawn from stockhausen s 26 pages of sketches for klavierstuck xi. This new version, premiered at the stockhausen summer course in kurten on august 10th 2011, is a kind of updating of stockhausen. Performance theory and practice in stockhausens kontakte. History and analysis john smalley, 2000 gesangs genesis sometime near the end of 1954, the devoutly catholic composer karlheinz stockhausen began work on a mass for electronic sounds, which he intended to debut in cologne cathedral. Kurzwellen is a piece where the musicians need to improvise and react to signals they receive on randomly tuned shortwave radios. Despite stockhausens perhaps somewhat mystical claims of kurzwellens virtues, its a pretty difficult work to follow and enjoy for most people unfamiliar with abstract sound textures. Stockhausen special edition textcds click on the cd cover to be able to hear the sample tracks. A revised version of chapter iii, incorporating portions of chapter i, has been published as serial composition, serial form, and process in karlheinz stockhausens telemusik, in electroacoustic music.
Published on the occasion of the composers 60th birthday, the book includes a chronological list of. The composer claimed that it is not equal to the improvisation both in jazz even free jazz and eastern. Karlheinz stockhausen has 12 books on goodreads with 3 ratings. This work for six players, with a duration of about 5060 min. Your browser doesnt seem to have a pdf viewer, please download the pdf to. Stockhausen kreuzspiel for oboe, bass clarinet, piano and 3. Stockhausen exploited the capability of highperformance sequencing on the ems synthi 100 in transforming melodies to an unparalleled degree in sirius 197577, a composition begun around the same time that synthesizer pioneers like klaus schulze, vangelis and tangerine dream also were just beginning to use sequencers. Karlheinz stockhausens electronic music tips for aphex. Stockhausen, on the other hand, prescribed shortwave receivers because of. Sound objects are classified and described principally by means of aural analysis rather than the. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. A study of selected works by babbitt, stockhausen, and carter.
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