"Stimmung (a sort of pun on "voice", "mood" and "tuning"), his 70-minute piece for six voices, was said by Paul Hillier - whose new recording of it was released last month - to have "completely refashioned the very idea of what a vocal ensemble might do and be".
Reviewing the disc, Guardian music critic Andrew Clements described the work as "a vast elaboration of a single six-note chord based on the overtones of the note B flat" and added: "Stimmung is one of the masterpieces of the last half century. Like all the greatest music it is unclassifiable - part meditation, part gigantic motet, part phonetic game - and totally resistant to imitation"."
Listen to excerpts:
http://www.amazon.com/Stockhausen-Stimm
FYI, this is the music we used for the meditation during the Solstice ritual yesterday.
I gave a presentation on Stimmung in college and performed his Klavierstucke Drei for my final exam in my 20th century music theory class. My other undergrad composer friend, Jonathan Vincent, and I used to write him odd letters in college, saying we were "eine kliene schwiene" and other agonies of composition students. He never wrote us back.
He also wrote music with many mystical and magickal themes, including music based upon the zodiac, and his opera series on Licht: Donnerstag aus Licht, etc. (Thursday from Light, etc.) which tell of the conflict between Michael and Lucifer, among other things.
Years later, I would be amused to see a picture of him and Hymaneus Beta. Ah, the tangled web life weaves.
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frater_pfdv, Jerry Hunt wrote music based upon the Enochian keys. He died the same day as Frank Zappa.
Reviewing the disc, Guardian music critic Andrew Clements described the work as "a vast elaboration of a single six-note chord based on the overtones of the note B flat" and added: "Stimmung is one of the masterpieces of the last half century. Like all the greatest music it is unclassifiable - part meditation, part gigantic motet, part phonetic game - and totally resistant to imitation"."
Listen to excerpts:
http://www.amazon.com/Stockhausen-Stimm
FYI, this is the music we used for the meditation during the Solstice ritual yesterday.
I gave a presentation on Stimmung in college and performed his Klavierstucke Drei for my final exam in my 20th century music theory class. My other undergrad composer friend, Jonathan Vincent, and I used to write him odd letters in college, saying we were "eine kliene schwiene" and other agonies of composition students. He never wrote us back.
He also wrote music with many mystical and magickal themes, including music based upon the zodiac, and his opera series on Licht: Donnerstag aus Licht, etc. (Thursday from Light, etc.) which tell of the conflict between Michael and Lucifer, among other things.
Years later, I would be amused to see a picture of him and Hymaneus Beta. Ah, the tangled web life weaves.
Oh, and for
frater_pfdv, Jerry Hunt wrote music based upon the Enochian keys. He died the same day as Frank Zappa.
a couple of mistakes...
• Jerry Hunt did not die on the same day as Frank Zappa died.
Rod Stasick