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Serialism
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Serialism · After the Second World War, young composers wanted to start completely afresh. At the summer courses in Darmstadt, they heard Olivier Messiaen's Mode de valeurs et d'intensités (1949), in which every note has a fixed duration, dynamic and attack. Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen went even further in Structures and Kreuzspiel, organising in series not only the pitches but also rhythm and volume. The result sounds like a starry sky of separate points.
Listening
Listening tip. Hear how every note in Mode de valeurs stands on its own, with its own length and loudness, with no melody you can sing along to.
Mode de valeurs et d'intensités (Yvonne Loriod) · Olivier Messiaen, 1949
Structures I: Ia (Yvonne Loriod, Pierre Boulez) · Pierre Boulez, 1952
Kreuzspiel (Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez) · Karlheinz Stockhausen, 1951
See also
- Anton Webern
- Igor Stravinsky
- Iannis Xenakis
- György Ligeti
- Arvo Pärt
- Atonality and twelve-tone music
- Chance and silence: John Cage
- Spectralism
- Sound masses: Xenakis, Ligeti and Penderecki
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