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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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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.
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Various music scores of Tom Phillips (1937-2022)

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.
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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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György Ligeti - Artikulation (1958)
Score for Listening: Rainer Wehinger
Video credits: Donald Craig
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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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Not exactly notation but these are two waveform slides painted by Daphne Oram!
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I’m never impressed more by ancient musicians than the Epitaph of Seikilos, a possible 2,200 year ancient old Greek song.
It is the oldest song in the world to survive with complete lyrics and music notation.
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Cornelius Cardew, Treatise (1963–1967)
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George Crumb, Spiral Galaxy (1972)
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