A page from John Cage’s “Aria”
Cage wanted the piece to be singable by any male or female vocalist, and he wanted them to freely choose 10 different singing styles that could be rapidly alternated. Each style is represented by a different color and the shape of the squiggles indicates the general melodic contour.
Leonard Bernstein’s score of former Philharmonic music director Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 6, which Alan Gilbert conducts next week at Avery Fisher Hall on September 29, 30, and October 1.
Edgard Varèse does jazz. Cf. the score for Poème électronique. Also, there’s a Varèse blog and I didn’t know?!
From Kircher’s Musurgia Universalis: Birds!!
(via xtina)
“The book is one of the seminal works of musicology and was hugely influential in the development of Western music – in particular on J.S.Bach (1685-1750) and Beethoven (1770-1827).”
Score for “Belle, Bonne, Sage” (lyrics), a song with eye music by Baude Cordier included in the Chantilly Codex. Part of the ars subtilior music tradition of the early Renaissance.
Japanese drum notation for “Dienst Mars” (Service March) by Inukai Kiyonobu, 1865. Western Military Drums in Japan.
Score for Clapping Music by Steve Reich. Video of Reich playing it with Russell Hartenberger, I think. See also the Rise and Fall of Steve Reich.
The first movement of Bach’s Violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor (BWV 1001). Listen.
The Joanna Newsom Transcription Project is pretty awesome. Lots of sheet music pdfs for harp and piano.
Mark Larson 