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Composer: HAAS, Georg Friedrich ((b. 1953)) |
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ID: KAI0012332
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra
When the light gradually fades, only minutes after in vain begins, the quick, interlaced downward lines starting from the outset cease, while soft, lying tones remain, dodging each other by way of quarter-tone intervals. As in Violinkonzert, two harmonic starting points are contrasted: on the one hand, extracts of pure overtone series, on the other hand, chords in the tempered piano mood made of thirds, fourths, and fifths. The difference between these two tone system blurs after the end of the second dark phase with a renewed acceleration of the tempo in the increasing density of the sound. The hearing experience of the overall sound is decisive for Haas:"I don't trust in sound analyses nor in row charts", he explains, examining the detailed computer analyses of real sounds. Georg Friedrich Haas really has a bent for numbers; the implicit symbolism of numbers in in vain applies even to the relation between the size of orchestration (24 instruments in the dark, plus the director in the light) and the microtonal 24:25 interval. (Bernhard Günther)
Includes booklet with text by Bernhard Günther |
| 21.00 eur Buy |
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ID: KAI0012442
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
The method of composition, which has recourse to existing musical material, reworking it into a new composition, figures as a central principle of occidental music history. This applies particularly to the mass and motet compositions of the Renaissance, when this method of adopting and reworking existing music represented one of the key features of musical production. An especially vivid example - which however remains singular in its appearance - for the continuous engagement with a certain musical “theme” is the English “In Nomine“ genre dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries.
This tradition started out with the six-voice mass Gloria tibi Trinitas by John Taverner (around 1495-1545), composed no later than around 1528. To the words “In nomine Domini” the section of the Benedictus (the lyrics are: “Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini” - “blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord”) has a salient four-voice section, which, as cantus firmus in the alto part, contains the antiphon “Gloria tibi Trinitas” quoted in its entirety.
Includes booklet with text by Torsten Blaich |
| 28.00 eur Buy |
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