Among his most important works are Metastaseis ( 1953 – 4 ) for orchestra, which introduced independent parts for every musician of the orchestra ; percussion works such as Psappha ( 1975 ) and Pléïades ( 1979 ); compositions that introduced spatialization by dispersing musicians among the audience, such as Terretektorh ( 1966 ); electronic works created using Xenakis's UPIC system ; and the massive multimedia performances Xenakis called polytopes.

Although electroacoustic compositions represent only a small fraction of Xenakis's output, they are highly relevant to musical thinking in the late 20th century.

* Works catalogue 70-page PDF from Xenakis's publisher Éditions Durand-Salabert-Eschig

* Listen to an excerpt from Xenakis's Pleiades at Acousmata music blog

Messiaen's modal serialism was an influence on Xenakis's first large-scale work, Anastenaria ( 1953 – 54 ): a triptych for choir and orchestra based on an ancient Dionysian ritual.

Other examples of chamber works that use the double bass in mixed ensembles include Serge Prokofiev's Quintet in G minor, Op. 39 for oboe, clarinet, violin, viola, and double bass ; Erwin Schulhoff's Concertino for flute / piccolo, viola, and double bass ; Fred Lerdahl's Waltzes for violin, viola, cello, and double bass ; Mohammed Fairouz's Litany for double bass and wind quartet ; Mario Davidovsky's Festino for guitar, viola, cello, and double bass ; and Iannis Xenakis's Morsima-Amorsima for piano, violin, cello, and double bass.

He then tried studying with Arthur Honegger, whose reaction to Xenakis's music was unenthusiastic.

Despite this, and Xenakis's other activities, he was able to graduate in 1947, with a degree in civil engineering.

Unlike Honegger and Milhaud, Messiaen immediately recognized Xenakis's talent:

A collection of texts on applications of stochastic processes, game theory and computer programming in music, it was later revised, expanded and translated into English as Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition ( 1971 ) during Xenakis's tenure at Indiana University.

Xenakis's time is unknown, though it was slower than 23. 4 seconds, which was Andriakopoulos's winning time.

* Iannis Xenakis's Concret PH ( 1958 ), Bohor I ( 1962 ), Persepolis ( 1971 ), and many of his pieces for traditional instruments

And Judy sang the lovely old familiar things which seemed, at times, a blessed relief from the way-out compositions of the progressive jazzmen who have dominated these proceedings.

But one wishes, when the appetite is whetted, as it was in the case of the all-too-brief excerpt from the Blomdahl opera, that further opportunity would be provided both for hearing the works in their entirety and for a closer analytical look at the sense and nature of the compositions.

Among Canova's heroic compositions, his Perseus with the Head of Medusa ( photo, right ) appeared soon after his return from Germany.

Few of Salieri's compositions have survived from this early period.

The elegant, harmonically-advanced music in this musical pays indirect homage to the compositions of Maurice Ravel, especially his Valses nobles et sentimentales ( whose opening chord is " borrowed " for the opening chord of the song " Liaisons "); part of this effect stems from the style of orchestration that Jonathan Tunick used.

He decided to produce an album with Josefin Nilsson from this quartet, resulting in the 1993 English-language album Shapes, featuring ten new Andersson / Ulvaeus compositions.

From 1907 he also began to be influenced by the French composer Claude Debussy, whose compositions Kodály had brought back from Paris.

The memoir was diary entries, poems, letters, drawings, personal photos, and lyric compositions spanning from Love's childhood up until the year 2006, shortly after her release from a six-month rehab sentence.

Apart from the ' College ' and the ' Time ' series, Brubeck recorded four LPs featuring his compositions based on the group's travels, and the local music they encountered.

A partial solution to this is some programs ' ability to view the composite-order of elements ( such as images, effects, or other attributes ) with a visual diagram called a flowchart to nest compositions, or " comps ," directly into other compositions, thereby adding complexity to the render-order by first compositing layers in the beginning composition, then combining that resultant image with the layered images from the proceeding composition, and so on.

One of the most notable of these was Lizzie Doten, who in 1863 published Poems from the Inner Life, in which she claimed to have " received " new compositions by Poe's spirit.

Only a few compositions that Satie took seriously remain from this period: Jack in the Box, music to a pantomime by Jules Depaquit ( called a "" by Satie ),, a short comic opera on a serious theme, text by Lord Cheminot, The Dreamy Fish, piano music to accompany a lost tale by Lord Cheminot, and a few others that were mostly incomplete, hardly any of them staged, and none of them published at the time.

‘ free constructions ’, Tauli 1977 ), along with other sources of lexical enrichment such as derivations, compositions and loanwords ( often from Finnish ; cf.

Callet attributes this difference in embouchure technique as the reason the great players of the past were able to play at the level of technical virtuosity which they did, although the increased difficulty of contemporary compositions for brass seem to indicate that the level of brass technique achieved by today's performers equals or even exceeds that of most performers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The form evolved during the 18th century from several earlier types of contrapuntal compositions, such as imitative ricercars, capriccios, canzonas, and fantasias.

In his compositions, Rossini plagiarized freely from himself, a common practice among deadline-pressed opera composers of the time.

Uranus and Neptune have distinctly different interior compositions from Jupiter and Saturn.

Some music critics and interpreters of Puccini's work have speculated that the psychological effects of this incident on Puccini interfered with his ability to complete compositions later in his career, and also influenced the development of Puccinian characters such as Liu ( from Turandot ), a slave girl who dies tragically by suicide.

Along the way, McGuinn's original album concept was jettisoned in favor of a fully fledged country project, which included Parsons ' songs such as " One Hundred Years from Now " and " Hickory Wind ", along with compositions by Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Merle Haggard, and others.

They have crystallized from magmas that have compositions at or near a eutectic point ( or a temperature minimum on a cotectic curve ).

As well as making original compositions, Burns also collected folk songs from across Scotland, often revising or adapting them.

Some disco songs incorporated sounds produced with synthesizers and drum machines, and some compositions were entirely electronic ; examples include Giorgio Moroder's late 1970s productions such as Donna Summer's hit single " I Feel Love " from 1977, Cerrone's Supernature ( 1977 ), Yellow Magic Orchestra's synth-disco-pop productions from their self-titled album ( 1978 ), Solid State Survivor ( 1979 ), and several early 1980s disco-pop productions by the Hi-NRG group Lime.

The first Blue Note session, in August 1949, features Fats Navarro, Sonny Rollins, Powell, Tommy Potter and Roy Haynes, and the compositions " Bouncing with Bud " and " Dance of the Infidels ".

Olivier Messiaen's Quatre études de rythme (" Four studies in rhythm ", 1949 – 50 ) were not didactic compositions, but experiments with serial durations and pitches.

Today, the compositions of this period by pianist theatrical composers like Andrianary Ratianarivo ( 1895 – 1949 ) and Naka Rabemananatsoa ( 1892 – 1952 ) form part of the canon of classical Malagasy music and feature in the repertoire of Malagasy students of piano.

Category: 1949 compositions

A 1944 Band graduate of New York Military Academy, in Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY, he wrote jazz compositions like " Not Really the Blues " for Woody Herman in 1949, " Hershey Bar " ( 1950 ) and " Pot Luck " ( 1953 ) for Stan Getz, " Straight Life " ( 1953 ) and " Low Life " ( 1956 ) for Count Basie as well as " Tommyhawk " ( 1954 ) for Chet Baker.

Category: 1949 compositions

Category: 1949 compositions

Among his compositions, the most frequently performed is the Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Orchestra commissioned and premiered by Sigurd Raschèr in 1949.

He helped the Western world discover the music of a little-known Russian composer Nikolai Medtner ( 1880 – 1951 ), financing the recording of a large number of his compositions and founding the Medtner Society in 1949.

His list of compositions and arrangements is now over 300, dating from 1949 on, and most of these are published.