Hovhaness’s work imitates the recorded sounds with low basses and creates a rich orchestral ocean atmosphere, and Cage’s piece breaks up the word “whale” into its phonemes and extends those sounds, in contrast to Crumb’s approach which acoustically imitates aspects of whale sounds and like most of his pieces relates them to a poetic viewpoint. Other works which are based on whale song include Alan Hovhaness’s “And God Created Great Whales” (1970) for orchestra and recorded whale voices, and John Cage’s “Litany For The Whale” (1980) for voices. The concluding “Sea-Nocturne (…for the end of time)” builds an underwater atmosphere texture which gradually fragments. V)” is played “Dramatic, with a sense of imminent destiny” is constructed from piano tremolos and accents, cello trills with simultaneous glissando shifting, and extremely fast triplet patterns on the flute. IV)” has cello and flute melodies in unison underscored with punctuated patterns on the piano. III)” is built from flute harmonics and cycles on cello and piano. George Crumb: Voice of the Whale (1976) Watch Now Filters Best Price Free SD HD 4K Stream Subs Rent 3.99 3.99 Buy 9.99 9.99 Something wrong Let us know Synopsis A 54-minute portrait of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer George Crumb featuring a performance of his 'Vox Balaenae for Three Masked Players. This fine collection offers impressive performances that reveal George Crumbs broad expressive range within his own personal idiom. A trio for flute, cello, and piano, all amplified, the work continues to fascinate audiences with its imitation of whale song, and the feeling it conjures. II)” are built from cello harmonics with string glissandos and silently depressed clusters on the keys of the electric piano. GEORGE CRUMB Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale)Mimi Stillman, fluteArlen Hlusko, celloAmy Yang, pianoPerformed on Sunday, September 22, 2013Gould Rehearsal Ha. In 1969, George Crumb heard the complex, otherworldly singing of the humpback whale then a deeply endangered species and was inspired to write Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale). The “Variations on Sea-Time … Sea Theme”, “Archeozoic (Var. The various sections of the work are played without pause: The “Vocalise (… for the beginning of time)” features the electric flute with the performer simultaneously playing and singing parallel lines into the flute, and then singing one sustained note into the flute while fingering fast arpeggios. “The masks, by effacing a sense of human projection, will symbolize the powerful impersonal forces of nature (nature dehumanized)” (Crumb). Inspired by the singing of the humpbacked whale, the performance requires that each of the three players wear a black half-mask (vizor-mask). A parody of Richard Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarthustra" - not in the enlighten key but rather in the striving key - sets the scene to come as life begins to appear on this earth.George Crumb’s “Vox balaenae for three masked players” (Voice of the Whale) is scored for electric flute, electric piano, and electric cello and four antique cymbals (crotales). In the opening vocalise, however, the primordial is expressed through the other-worldly sound of a sung-played flute and tones thrust directly through the instrument into the resonating strings of the piano. The full work for three amplified instruments - flute, piano, and cello - explores and incorporates melodies of whales. Pardo Salgado: Voices in Nature: Vox Balaenae by George Crumb ance singing and each. George Crumb's inspiration was the song of humpback whales - an early expression drawing on the world of music beyond that created by humans.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |