Cowell

1925

- Screeching sounds made from the strings inside the piano

Cowell

1923

(sounds like Keyshia Cole's "Love")

-Nothing is added inside the piano. The sound comes from inside the piano.

Nancarrow

1938

(sounds like a videogame)

-Demonstrates composers' concern for mechanical control of their music. Machine plays by itself.

Varese

1922

Internal tensions. Held together by rhythmic energy. (He likes sirens)
*Tension = drum symbals and horns

Feldman

1963

Universally soft music. Meditative. Calm soundscape.

(you can hear soft bass drum rolls and maybe a triangle. Every now and then there will be a female voice singing on sustained note)

Music for Sarah

Mvt.II

Fonville

1981

for solo flute

Key clicks can be heard (there's even a section of just key tapping and just some wind blowing). Shows her interest in dance.

Cage

1942

Singer is accompanied by piano (but with keyboard closed) so it is used for percussion purposes.

-Chant like voice & crescendo

-Little dynamic

Berio

1965

Unaccompanied voice is used to make sound

Sinfonia

Section III

Berio

1968

Layered sound for memory component. "St. Anthony" can be heard in the background.

-Music while people are talking

-(Might sound like a theme park w/people talking while music is playing)

Ancient Voices of Children

Mvts.3 & 4

Crumb

1970

-Female singer is singing into piano in beginning

-Eventually piano comes in and percussion plays and you can hear people talking. Sounds a bit scary, like satanic children. *Sounds like a tribe chant

4th mvt=calm, soft singing

Eight Songs for a Mad King

Numbers 6-8

Davies

1971

"Theater piece"

You can hear lots of clarinet and it can get scary sometimes and makes me think of "Great Mouse Detective." The guy talking sounds crazy and says "I'm nervous" a lot.

Near the end some instruments come in like piano and percussion, but he sounds like an insane guy singing?

Varese

1958

Synthesized sounds. (Think of space?)

-Uses "live" sounds and is assimilated into an electronic composition, and the manipulated.

Gaburo

1967

Sounds are separated apart by silence.

- There are some horns, and some female voices randomly singing sustained operatic notes.

*Electronic tape with live performers.