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Sound mass, the Glossary

In musical composition, a sound mass or sound collective is the result of compositional techniques, in which, "the importance of individual pitches", is minimized, "in preference for texture, timbre, and dynamics as primary shapers of gesture and impact", obscuring, "the boundary between sound and noise".^[1]

66 relations: Atmosphères, Barbara Kolb, Charles Ives, Claude Debussy, Dieter Schnebel, Drone (sound), Dynamics (music), Edgard Varèse, Eric Salzman, Extended technique, Flutter-tonguing, George Crumb, George Perle, Gesang der Jünglinge, Gruppen, György Ligeti, Harry Freedman, Henry Cowell, Henryk Górecki, Iannis Xenakis, International Computer Music Conference, Jean-Féry Rebel, Jerome Kohl, John Tyrrell (musicologist), Karel Husa, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Kazimierz Serocki, Krzysztof Penderecki, Les Élémens (Rebel), Maurice Ohana, Metastaseis (Xenakis), Micropolyphony, Milton Babbitt, Modernism (music), Monic Cecconi-Botella, Musical composition, Nancy Van de Vate, Noise, Nonesuch Records, Norma Beecroft, Panayiotis Kokoras, Pauline Oliveros, Phill Niblock, Pitch (music), Pithoprakta, Robert Erickson, Robert Palmer (American writer), Ruth Crawford Seeger, Sonorism, Sound, ... Expand index (16 more) »
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Atmosphères

Atmosphères is a piece for orchestra, composed by György Ligeti in 1961.

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Barbara Kolb

Barbara Kolb (born February 10, 1939) is an American composer.

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Charles Ives

Charles Edward Ives (October 20, 1874May 19, 1954) was an American actuary, businessman, and modernist composer.

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Claude Debussy

(Achille) Claude Debussy (|group.

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Dieter Schnebel

Dieter Schnebel (14 March 1930 – 20 May 2018) was a German composer, theologian and musicologist.

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Drone (sound)

In music, a drone is a harmonic or monophonic effect or accompaniment where a note or chord is continuously sounded throughout most or all of a piece.

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Dynamics (music)

In music, the dynamics of a piece are the variation in loudness between notes or phrases.

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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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Eric Salzman

Eric Salzman (September 8, 1933 – November 12, 2017) was an American composer, scholar, author, impresario, music critic, and record producer.

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Extended technique

In music, extended technique is unconventional, unorthodox, or non-traditional methods of singing or of playing musical instruments employed to obtain unusual sounds or timbres.

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Flutter-tonguing

Flutter-tonguing is a wind instrument tonguing technique in which performers flutter their tongue to make a characteristic "FrrrrrFrrrrr" sound.

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George Crumb

George Henry Crumb Jr. (24 October 1929 – 6 February 2022) was an American composer of avant-garde contemporary classical music.

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George Perle

George Perle (6 May 1915 – 23 January 2009) was an American composer and music theorist.

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Gesang der Jünglinge

Gesang der Jünglinge (literally "Song of the Youths") is an electronic music work by Karlheinz Stockhausen.

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Gruppen

Gruppen (Groups) for three orchestras (1955–57) is amongst the best-known compositions of German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, and is Work Number 6 in the composer's catalog of works.

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György Ligeti

György Sándor Ligeti (28 May 1923 – 12 June 2006) was a Hungarian-Austrian composer of contemporary classical music.

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Harry Freedman

Harry Freedman (Henryk Frydmann), (April 5, 1922 – September 16, 2005) was a Canadian composer, English hornist, and music educator of Polish birth.

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Henry Cowell

Henry Dixon Cowell (March 11, 1897 – December 10, 1965) was an American composer, writer, pianist, publisher, teacher Marchioni, Tonimarie (2012).

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Henryk Górecki

Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (6 December 1933 – 12 November 2010) was a Polish composer of contemporary classical music.

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Iannis Xenakis

Giannis Klearchou Xenakis (also spelled for professional purposes as Yannis or Iannis Xenakis; Γιάννης "Ιωάννης" ΚλέαρχουΞενάκης,; 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde composer, music theorist, architect, performance director and engineer.

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International Computer Music Conference

The International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) is a yearly international conference for computer music researchers and composers.

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Jean-Féry Rebel

Jean-Féry Rebel (18 April 1666 – 2 January 1747) was an innovative French Baroque composer and violinist.

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Jerome Kohl

Jerome Joseph Kohl (November 27, 1946 – August 4, 2020) was an American musicologist, academic journal editor, and recorder teacher.

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John Tyrrell (musicologist)

John Tyrrell (17 August 1942 – 4 October 2018) was a British musicologist.

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Karel Husa

Karel Husa (August 7, 1921 – December 14, 2016) was a Czech-born classical composer and conductor, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Music and 1993 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition.

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Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen (22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries.

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Kazimierz Serocki

Kazimierz Serocki (3 March 1922 – 9 January 1981) was a Polish composer and one of the founders of the Warsaw Autumn contemporary music festival.

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Krzysztof Penderecki

Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki (23 November 1933 – 29 March 2020) was a Polish composer and conductor.

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Les Élémens (Rebel)

Les Élémens, simphonie nouvelle is a ballet of the late Baroque period composed for instrumental ensemble in 1737 and 1738 by Jean-Féry Rebel (1666 – 1747).

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Maurice Ohana

Maurice Ohana (12 June 1913 – 13 November 1992) was a French composer.

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(Μεταστάσεις; spelled in correct French transliteration, or in some early writings by the composer) is an orchestral work for 61 musicians by Iannis Xenakis.

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Micropolyphony

Micropolyphony is a kind of polyphonic musical texture developed by György Ligeti, which consists of many lines of dense canons moving at different tempos or rhythms, thus resulting in tone clusters. Sound mass and Micropolyphony are musical texture.

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Milton Babbitt

Milton Byron Babbitt (May 10, 1916 – January 29, 2011) was an American composer, music theorist, mathematician, and teacher.

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Modernism (music)

In music, modernism is an aesthetic stance underlying the period of change and development in musical language that occurred around the turn of the 20th century, a period of diverse reactions in challenging and reinterpreting older categories of music, innovations that led to new ways of organizing and approaching harmonic, melodic, sonic, and rhythmic aspects of music, and changes in aesthetic worldviews in close relation to the larger identifiable period of modernism in the arts of the time.

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Monic Cecconi-Botella

Monic Gabrielle Cecconi-Botella (born 30 September 1936) is a French pianist, music educator and composer.

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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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Nancy Van de Vate

Nancy Jean Van de Vate (December 30, 1930 – July 29, 2023) was an American-born Austrian composer, violist and pianist.

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Noise

Noise is sound, chiefly unwanted, unintentional, or harmful sound considered unpleasant, loud, or disruptive to mental or hearing faculties.

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Nonesuch Records

Nonesuch Records is an American record company and label owned by Warner Music Group, distributed by Warner Records (formerly Warner Bros. Records), and based in New York City.

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Norma Beecroft

Norma Marian Beecroft (born 11 April 1934) is a Canadian composer, producer, broadcaster, and arts administrator.

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Panayiotis Kokoras

Panayiotis Kokoras (Παναγιώτης Κόκορας; born 1974, Ptolemaida) is a Greek composer and computer music innovator.

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Pauline Oliveros

Pauline Oliveros (May 30, 1932 – November 24, 2016) was an American composer, accordionist and a central figure in the development of post-war experimental and electronic music.

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Phill Niblock

Phillip Earl Niblock (October 2, 1933 – January 8, 2024) was an American composer, filmmaker, and videographer.

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Pitch (music)

Pitch is a perceptual property that allows sounds to be ordered on a frequency-related scale, or more commonly, pitch is the quality that makes it possible to judge sounds as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodies.

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Pithoprakta

Pithoprakta (1955–56) is a piece by Iannis Xenakis for string orchestra (with 46 separate solo parts), two trombones, xylophone, and wood block, premièred by conductor Hermann Scherchen in Munich in March 1957.

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Robert Erickson

Robert Erickson (March 7, 1917 – April 24, 1997) was an American composer.

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Robert Palmer (American writer)

Robert Franklin Palmer Jr. (June 19, 1945 – November 20, 1997) was an American writer, musicologist, clarinetist, saxophonist, and blues producer.

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Ruth Crawford Seeger

Ruth Crawford Seeger (born Ruth Porter Crawford; July 3, 1901 – November 18, 1953) was an American composer and folk music specialist.

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Sonorism

Sonorism (Polish: Sonoryzm) is an approach to musical composition associated with a number of notable Polish composers.

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Sound

In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid.

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Spectral music

Spectral music uses the acoustic properties of sound – or sound spectra – as a basis for composition. Sound mass and spectral music are timbre.

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Stanley Sadie

Stanley John Sadie (30 October 1930 – 21 March 2005) was an influential and prolific British musicologist, music critic, and editor.

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Stefan Kostka

Stefan M. Kostka (born 1939) is an American music theorist, author, and Professor Emeritus of music theory at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Steven Stucky

Steven Edward Stucky (November 7, 1949 − February 14, 2016) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer.

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String Quartet 1931 (Crawford Seeger)

Ruth Crawford Seeger's String Quartet (1931) is "regarded as one of the finest modernist works of the genre".

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String Quartet No. 2 (Babbitt)

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Texture (music)

In music, texture is how the tempo, melodic, and harmonic materials are combined in a musical composition, determining the overall quality of the sound in a piece. Sound mass and texture (music) are musical texture.

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The Composers Quartet

The Composers String Quartet was a string quartet best known for performances of new works by contemporary composers, including quartets by Elliott Carter and Ruth Crawford Seeger.

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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima

Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, also translated as Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima (Tren pamięci ofiar Hiroszimy), is a musical composition for 52 string instruments composed in 1961 by Krzysztof Penderecki.

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Timbral listening

Timbral listening is the process of actively listening to the timbral characteristics of sound.

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Timbre

In music, timbre, also known as tone color or tone quality (from psychoacoustics), is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.

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Tone cluster

A tone cluster is a musical chord comprising at least three adjacent tones in a scale.

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Witold Lutosławski

Witold Roman Lutosławski (25 January 1913 – 7 February 1994) was a Polish composer and conductor.

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Zeitmaße

Zeitmaße (German for "Time Measures") is a chamber-music work for five woodwinds (flute, oboe, cor anglais, clarinet, and bassoon) composed in 1955–1956 by German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen; it is Number 5 in the composer's catalog.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_mass

Also known as Ensemble timbre, Fused timbre, Klangflächenmusik, Sound-mass, Soundmass.

, Spectral music, Stanley Sadie, Stefan Kostka, Steven Stucky, String Quartet 1931 (Crawford Seeger), String Quartet No. 2 (Babbitt), Texture (music), The Composers Quartet, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New York Times, Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, Timbral listening, Timbre, Tone cluster, Witold Lutosławski, Zeitmaße.

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Modernism (music)

Musical texture

Timbre

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