American Percussion Works is a rare collection of seldom heard works each with specific rules or themes as a basis for the compositions. In John Cage's First Construction the principle is based on the figure 16. Alberto Ginatera's work Cantata para America Magica, uses pre-Columbian texts based on the conditions of human life, with war, natural phenomena, daybreak, night and love. Lou Harrison mixes non-European forms which 'follow the pattern of having a single melodic part accompanied (or enhanced) by rhythmic percussion' in his Koncherto. Varese's Ionisation also enters a new land being his first solely percussive work where 'he finds a new grammar for the language of music.'
American Percussion Works is a rare collection of seldom heard works each with specific rules or themes as a basis for the compositions. In John Cage's First Construction the principle is based on the figure 16. Alberto Ginatera's work Cantata para America Magica, uses pre-Columbian texts based on the conditions of human life, with war, natural phenomena, daybreak, night and love. Lou Harrison mixes non-European forms which 'follow the pattern of having a single melodic part accompanied (or enhanced) by rhythmic percussion' in his Koncherto. Varese's Ionisation also enters a new land being his first solely percussive work where 'he finds a new grammar for the language of music.'
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Format: CD
Label: NAXOS
Rel. Date: 01/29/2021
UPC: 747313424474

American Percussion Works
Artist: Cage / Asmussen / Thorel
Format: CD
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1. First Construction (In Metal)
2. Cantata Para América Mágica, Op. 27
3. I. Preludio y Canto a la Aurora
4. II. Nocturno y Canto de Amor
5. III. Canto Para la Partida de los Guerreros
6. IV. Interludio Fantástico
7. V. Canto de Agonía y Desolación
8. VI. Canto de la Profecía
9. Concerto for Violin and Percussion Orchestra
10. I. Allegro Maestoso, Allegro Vivace
11. II. Largo, Cantabile
12. III. Allegro Vigoroso, Poco Presto
13. Ionisation

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American Percussion Works is a rare collection of seldom heard works each with specific rules or themes as a basis for the compositions. In John Cage's First Construction the principle is based on the figure 16. Alberto Ginatera's work Cantata para America Magica, uses pre-Columbian texts based on the conditions of human life, with war, natural phenomena, daybreak, night and love. Lou Harrison mixes non-European forms which 'follow the pattern of having a single melodic part accompanied (or enhanced) by rhythmic percussion' in his Koncherto. Varese's Ionisation also enters a new land being his first solely percussive work where 'he finds a new grammar for the language of music.'