Open Source Music

I am doing a transcription of some of Krenek’s papers in preparation for a paper I am writing on his Solo Viola Sonata. Below are some of the notes from the work I’m doing and an excerpt from the beginning of the transcription (I am not sure whether I am allowed to post it all.)

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Stewart, J. L. (1991). Ernst Krenek: The man and his music. Berkeley: University of California Press.

“As Krenek recalls, when the parts had been distributed, he told the players: ‘Now we are going to play a piece which you will not understand one bit. Whoever thinks he has the theme please play very loud.’ The [...]

On one occasion, Schoenberg asked a girl in his class to go to the piano and play the first movement of a Beethoven sonata, which was afterwards to be analyzed. She said, “It is too difficult. I can’t play it.” Schoenberg said, “You’re a pianist, aren’t you?” She said, “Yes.” He said, Then go to [...]

One of the ways Stockhausen put this piece together with the huge crescendos that go to a climax and then suddenly disappear was to record an attack with a synthesizer & reverb running. He would then record the sample of the attack + reverb playing backwards to get the desired effect.

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