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Cataloging beautiful music scores and musical ideas.

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‘SATURN RETURN’ (2023) by @tezchaix for solo piano, 18x24” hand-drawn with graphite.
For more information about the artist, check out; www.tezchaix.com

ALT For more information about the artist, check out; www.tezchaix.com

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Ambient 1: Music for Airports - Brian Eno (1978) #musicnotation #graphicscore #graphicnotation
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Fred Frith - Bricks for Six (1992) Frith's 1992 album Stone, Brick, Glass, Wood, Wire comprised a series of performances from graphic scores that were photographs of inanimate objects, including stone pavings, brick walls, windows, stacks of logs and high-tension wires.
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Phillips - Ornamentik (1968) "Ornamentik" was written at the request of the American trombonist Stuart Dempster who asked for a piece that would suggest, within the character of a sustaining instrument, various provocative challenges to corner him into inventing new sounds.
Notes on this work: https://www.tomphillips.co.uk/works/music-scores/item/5281-ornamentik-opus-ix#

ALT Notes on this work: https://www.tomphillips.co.uk/works/music-scores/item/5281-ornamentik-opus-ix#

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John Cage - Aria (1958)
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Score cover

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Notes on this work.

ALT Notes on this work.

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Various music scores of Tom Phillips (1937-2022)
Golden Flower Piece, Opus 5 (1966) Notes on this work: This piece was prepared for John Tilbury as an exercise in assertion by denial. In what seems to be a free improvisation ranging the length of the keyboard certain absences become apparent. The octaves either side of middle C are not available, nor anywhere on teh keyboard is B flat (A sharp) available. Other tendancies are also noted as the piece progresses, since links of note clusters have to be made rapidly. Different performances may have entirely different characters but the cards are, so to speak, marked so that the score is in command.

ALT Golden Flower Piece, Opus 5 (1966) Notes on this work: This piece was prepared for John Tilbury as an exercise in assertion by denial. In what seems to be a free improvisation ranging the length of the keyboard certain absences become apparent. The octaves either side of middle C are not available, nor anywhere on teh keyboard is B flat (A sharp) available. Other tendancies are also noted as the piece progresses, since links of note clusters have to be made rapidly. Different performances may have entirely different characters but the cards are, so to speak, marked so that the score is in command.

Music For n Players, Opus 2 (1966)

ALT Music For n Players, Opus 2 (1966)

Irma: An opera, opus XIIB, Page 21 (1969)

ALT Irma: An opera, opus XIIB, Page 21 (1969)

Four Pieces for John Tilbury, Opus 2 (1966)

ALT Four Pieces for John Tilbury, Opus 2 (1966)

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Although every bit of this performance is unbelievable, this moment to me is out of this world. Having an improvisatory nature, this performance clearly demonstrates exceptional technical ability and emotional richness, +
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which combines with cross-cultural musical journeys. Listen to the full performance at; Alim Qasimov, @HsnSnlndrc , Rauf Islamov, Michel Godard - A Trace of Grace (2019) youtu.be/cHkXM-i_1MU?si=2eiC…
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Krzysztof Penderecki - Polymorphia (1961)
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Krzysztof Penderecki - Polymorphia youtu.be/Wtq5iCxCIdU?si=CPde…
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Tom Phillips - Six of Hearts (1991) #musicnotation #graphicscore #graphicnotation
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Cardew - "Treatise" (1963-1967) One fragment of the 193-page with no instructions. This means every performance of the piece is different.
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John Cage's Music for Marcel Duchamp as used in Max Richter's experimental film from 1947 Dreams That Money Can Buy
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When gaming meets music production.
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György Ligeti - Artikulation (1958) Score for Listening: Rainer Wehinger Video credits: Donald Craig
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Full composition and video can be found at: youtu.be/71hNl_skTZQ?si=CuiS…
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In 1966, Cathy Berberian composed her first musical work, Stripsody, for solo voice. Stripsody explores the onomatopoeic sounds of comic strips illustrated by Roberto Zamarin, conveying a succession of engaging vignettes. A radical paradigm shift in composition during the 1960s.
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Watch her performance: Cathy Berberian | Stripsody youtu.be/0dNLAhL46xM?si=RL5J…
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Demonstration of the divison of octave in 24 unequal parts in Turkish Makam Music by Tanburi Cemil Bey. Rehber-i Mûsikî, Tanburi Cemil Bey (1904)
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Various graphic scores of Iannis Xenakis.
Iannis Xenakis, Graphic Score for Pithoprakta. 1955-1956

ALT Iannis Xenakis, Graphic Score for Pithoprakta. 1955-1956

Iannis Xenakis, The Polytope de Montréal (1967)

ALT Iannis Xenakis, The Polytope de Montréal (1967)

The Polytope de Montréal (1967)

ALT The Polytope de Montréal (1967)

Iannis Xenakis, Study for Metastaseis (1954)

ALT Iannis Xenakis, Study for Metastaseis (1954)

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Cornelius Cardew, Treatise (1963–1967) #graphicscore #musicnotation
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John Cage, Fontana Mix (1958)
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Gabrielle Cerberville, ‘Particle’ for solo piano (2018)
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George Crumb, Spiral Galaxy (1972) #musicnotation #graphicscore
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