An Examination of Two Significant Percussion Compositions: Karlheinz Stockhausen's Zyklus and Ingolf Dahl's Duettino Concertante, a Lecture Recital Together with Five Recitals of Selected Works of A. Ginastera, A. Wilder, W. Kraft, and Others
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44 graphic illustrations. Pictographs are used to designate sound sources, striking implements, and sound production techniques. Stockhausen explained Zyklus in this way: In Zyklus (for one percussion player), the predominantly static open form of Klavier- stuck XI—where all depended on the instan- taneity of random glance—is cojoined with the idea of a dynamic, closed form; the result is a circular, curvilinear form. The piece is written on 16 spiral-bound sheets of paper; there is no beginning and no end; the per- former may begin with any page, but must then play a cycle in the stipulated page-sequence; the stands within a ring of percussion instru- ments and during the performance turns full circle—in terms of the principle positions he takes up—either clockwise or anti-clockwise, according to the direction in which he is reading the score. Fields containing points and groups are distinguished by differing degrees of combinatorial potential; in the sequence it was composed, they mediate continuously between the wholly determinate and the extremely free; the structure having the greatest degree of freedom—the extreme point of "instantaneity"—is formed in such a way that it might well be taken for the extremely determinate structure that im- mediately follows it. Thus a temporal circle is experienced in which one does in fact have the constant impression of moving towards greater freedom (clockwise) or greater determinance (anti-clockwise), whereas at the critical point of contact between the extremes the one breaks into the other unnoticed.3 Each of the seventeen periods in the piece contains a grid of thirty equal time units. The duration of each time 3 Karl H. Wclrner, Stockhausen Life and Work, trans, and ed. Bill Hopkins (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1973), 42.
Carney, Michael R. (Michael Reed), 1952-.An Examination of Two Significant Percussion Compositions: Karlheinz Stockhausen's Zyklus and Ingolf Dahl's Duettino Concertante, a Lecture Recital Together with Five Recitals of Selected Works of A. Ginastera, A. Wilder, W. Kraft, and Others,
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