Tag: AVANTGARDE CLASSICAL COMPOSING
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John Adams Approach
General – e.g. he Used Lydian vs Phrygian (Light vs Dark) Oscillating Triads – He Later Started to Stretch Out a Simply Triad (Oscillating Triad), i.e. Usually by Oscillating the Notes within It to Give it Sense of Activity or Instability – e.g. in Shaker Loops there is D Major Triad, then a E is…
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Olivier Messiaen Approach
General – Messiaen was Teacher for Harmony and Composition at Paris (Students Like Quincy Jones, Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, George Benjamin) – Messiaen Modes Provide a Huge Repertoire of Emotional Responses – His “Modes of Limited Transposition” is a Set of Modes or Scales that Fit a Strict Set or Criteria Relating to Their Interval Groups…
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Tristan Murail Approach
– Basically it is about Analysing Sound / Overtone Series to Create Spectral Harmonies & the Way these Individual Sounds are Grouped together into globally perceived Textures and How these Textures are Shaped in Time – He wanted to “Unfold” the “That Sound” from Moment to Moment – For Example from Minute to Minute a…