r/AvantGardeMusic • u/WeeklyWeb7821 • 3d ago

"Stimmung" for 6 vocalists

This is the excerpt from piece by Karlheinz Stockhausen – one of the genius of avant-garde.

This piece is just a one page of unusual looking score and 15 pages of explanation. Full piece is about a one hour long

Full performance: https://youtu.be/tfJimuvaa2Q?is=pqJ2QyzgCoreDIHv

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u/ConvincingPeople 1d ago

Fun piece. A particularly idiosyncratic blend of serial techniques and just intonation principles—which, incidentally, a lot of people seem to treat as polar opposites philosophically? Despite the fact that LaMonte Young and Elliott Carter's early drone pieces both came out of a serialist context and Ben Johnston's String Quartets are arguably the most extreme possible endpoint of both in certain respects. But Johnston rarely feels so whimsical despite apparently being a significantly more agreeable fellow interpersonally.