Nocturnal (Varèse), the Glossary
Nocturnal (1961) for soprano, male choir, and orchestra, is a musical composition by Edgard Varèse with text consisting of syllables by Varèse and words and phrases adapted from House of Incest by Anaïs Nin (1936), revised and completed posthumously by Chou Wen-chung (1968), The piece is commissioned by and dedicated to the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, published 1972.[1]
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16 relations: Anaïs Nin, Antonin Artaud, Choir, Chou Wen-chung, Dada, Edgard Varèse, Flexatone, House of Incest, Metalanguage, Musical composition, Ondes Martenot, Orchestra, Robert Craft, Serge Koussevitzky, Soprano, The Town Hall (New York City).
- 1961 compositions
- 1972 compositions
- Compositions by Edgard Varèse
- Compositions for orchestra
- Modernist compositions
- Music commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky or the Koussevitzky Music Foundation
- Musical compositions completed by others
- Vocal musical compositions
Anaïs Nin
Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell (February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977) was a French-born American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica.
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Antonin Artaud
Antoine Marie Joseph Paul Artaud, better known as Antonin Artaud (4 September 1896 – 4 March 1948), was a French artist who worked across a variety of media.
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Choir
A choir (also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers.
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Chou Wen-chung
Chou Wen-chung (July 28, 1923 – October 25, 2019) was a Chinese American composer of contemporary classical music.
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Dada
Dada or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centres in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (in 1916), founded by Hugo Ball with his companion Emmy Hennings, and in Berlin in 1917.
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Edgard Varèse
Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (also spelled Edgar; December 22, 1883 – November 6, 1965) was a French composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States.
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Flexatone
The flexatone or fleximetal is a modern percussion instrument (an indirectly struck idiophone) consisting of a small flexible metal sheet suspended in a wire frame ending in a handle.
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House of Incest
House of Incest is a prose poem written by Anaïs Nin.
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In logic and linguistics, a metalanguage is a language used to describe another language, often called the object language.
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Musical composition
Musical composition can refer to an original piece or work of music, either vocal or instrumental, the structure of a musical piece or to the process of creating or writing a new piece of music.
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Ondes Martenot
The ondes Martenot ("Martenot waves") or ondes musicales ("musical waves") is an early electronic musical instrument.
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Orchestra
An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families.
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Robert Craft
Robert Lawson Craft (October 20, 1923 – November 10, 2015) was an American conductor and writer.
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Serge Koussevitzky
Serge Koussevitzky (born Sergey Aleksandrovich Kusevitsky;Koussevitzky's original Russian forename is usually transliterated into English as either "Sergei" or "Sergey"; however, he himself adopted the French spelling "Serge", using it in his signature. (See. Retrieved 5 November 2009.) His surname can be transliterated variously as "Koussevitzky", "Koussevitsky", "Kussevitzky", "Kusevitsky", or, into Polish, as "Kusewicki"; however, he himself chose to use "Koussevitzky".
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Soprano
A soprano is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types.
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The Town Hall (New York City)
The Town Hall (also Town Hall) is a performance space at 123 West 43rd Street, between Broadway and Sixth Avenue near Times Square, in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.
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See also
1961 compositions
- Atmosphères
- Cello Sonata (Britten)
- Double Concerto (Carter)
- Fanfare for the Inauguration of John F. Kennedy
- Fonogrammi
- Herma (Xenakis)
- Homunculus C.F.
- Impressions (instrumental composition)
- Jeux vénitiens
- Jubilate Deo (Britten)
- Nocturnal (Varèse)
- Organ Concerto (Williamson)
- Originale
- Piano Concerto No. 1 (Ginastera)
- Polymorphia
- Quartet Movement in E-flat major (Shostakovich)
- Soli II
- Sound Patterns
- Structures (Boulez)
- Symphony No. 12 (Milhaud)
- Symphony No. 12 (Shostakovich)
- Symphony No. 3 (Lilburn)
- Symphony No. 5 (Arnold)
- Three Bagatelles (Ligeti)
- Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
- Viola Concerto (Walton)
- Voice Piece for Soprano
1972 compositions
- Alphabet für Liège
- Cantus Arcticus
- Cello Concerto No. 1 (Penderecki)
- Cepa Andaluza
- Clapping Music
- Como una ola de fuerza y luz
- Euphonium Concerto
- Five Pianos
- Heliogabalus imperator
- Night-Thoughts (piano piece)
- Nocturnal (Varèse)
- Partita (Penderecki)
- Piano Concerto No. 2 (Ginastera)
- Requiem (Martin)
- Samman Guard
- Symphony No. 2 (Górecki)
- Symphony No. 3 (Tippett)
- Symphony No. 4 (Simpson)
- Symphony No. 5 (Simpson)
- The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jiveass Slippers
- The Triumph of Time (Birtwistle)
- Think break
- Windows (Druckman)
- Ylem (Stockhausen)
Compositions by Edgard Varèse
- Amériques
- Arcana (Varèse)
- Déserts
- Density 21.5
- Hyperprism (Varèse)
- Intégrales
- Ionisation (Varèse)
- Nocturnal (Varèse)
- Octandre
- Poème électronique
Compositions for orchestra
- Antikhthon
- Calcium Light Night
- Chôros No. 10
- Chôros No. 12
- Chôros No. 13
- Chôros No. 14
- Chôros No. 6
- Chôros No. 9
- Charivari (Gruber)
- Color Music (Torke)
- Danse (Satie)
- Esquinas
- Greeting Prelude
- Les Pantins dansent
- Mouvement (– vor der Erstarrung)
- Night Dances
- Nocturnal (Varèse)
- October (Whitacre)
- Pipa Pattern
- Quattro versioni originali della "Ritirata notturna di Madrid"
- Scherzo capriccioso (Dvořák)
- Seven Solos for Orchestra
- Slavonic Dances
- Song of the Athenians (Sibelius)
- Spitfire Prelude and Fugue
- Stele (Kurtág)
- The Triumph of Time (Birtwistle)
- Variations on a Theme by Hindemith
- Variations: Aldous Huxley in memoriam
- Windows (Druckman)
Modernist compositions
- Bouchara
- Chinaman, Laundryman
- Concerto for Orchestra (Bartók)
- Construction (Cage)
- Déserts
- Density 21.5
- Dynamic Motion
- Fabric (Cowell)
- Imaginary Landscape
- Intégrales
- Kraanerg
- L'Histoire du soldat
- Lonely Child (Vivier)
- Night music (Bartók)
- Nocturnal (Varèse)
- Octandre
- Out of Doors (Bartók)
- Piano Concerto (Cowell)
- Pithoprakta
- Poème électronique
- Rhythmicana
- Scaramouche (Milhaud)
- String Quartet 1931 (Crawford Seeger)
- The Banshee (Cowell)
- The Return of the Soldier
- The Rite of Spring
- The Snows of Fuji-Yama
- The Tides of Manaunaun
- Variations for Orchestra (Cowell)
- Wild Men's Dance
- Works for prepared piano by John Cage
- Zipangu (Vivier)
Music commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky or the Koussevitzky Music Foundation
- Ainsi la nuit
- Alleluia (Thompson)
- Concerto for Orchestra (Bartók)
- Eros Piano
- Nocturnal (Varèse)
- Peter Grimes
- Piano Concerto (Copland)
- Piano Concerto No. 1 (Ginastera)
- Second Rhapsody
- Spring Symphony
- Symphony No. 2 (Dutilleux)
- Symphony No. 3 (Copland)
- Symphony No. 4 (Prokofiev)
- Symphony No. 5 (Honegger)
- Symphony of Psalms
- Trumpet Concerto (Grime)
- Turangalîla-Symphonie
- Windows (Druckman)
Musical compositions completed by others
- Brainwashed (George Harrison album)
- Cabinessence
- Die Jakobsleiter
- Fantasia No. 2 (Mozart)
- Fantasia No. 3 (Mozart)
- Free as a Bird
- Great Mass in C minor, K. 427
- Modern completions of Mozart's Requiem
- Mozart Requiem
- Nocturnal (Varèse)
- Now and Then (Beatles song)
- Our Prayer
- Piano Quartet (Mahler)
- Piano Sonata in C major, D 840 (Schubert)
- Piano Sonata, WoO 51 (Beethoven)
- Quartet Movement in E-flat major (Shostakovich)
- Quartettsatz, D 103 (Schubert)
- Quartettsatz, D 703 (Schubert)
- Real Love (Beatles song)
- Requiem (Mozart)
- Rondo for Piano and Orchestra (Beethoven)
- Rondo for Piano and Orchestra in A major (Mozart)
- Sonata for Solo Cello (Prokofiev)
- String Quartet (Chausson)
- Surf's Up (song)
- The Art of Fugue
- The First Nowell (Vaughan Williams)
Vocal musical compositions
- A-Ronne (Berio)
- Altbachisches Archiv
- Anthems
- Arias
- Canticle I: My beloved is mine and I am his
- Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac
- Canticle III: Still falls the rain
- Canticle IV: The Journey of the Magi
- Canticles (Britten)
- Chants
- Chinese opera
- Coro (Berio)
- Ehe Chant
- Leçons de ténèbres (Couperin)
- Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day
- Musicals
- Nocturnal (Varèse)
- Operas
- Song cycle
- Song cycles
- Songs
- The Flow of (u)
- Three Voices
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocturnal_(Varèse)
Also known as Night (Varèse), Nocturnal II, Nuit (Varèse).