Morton Feldman and Western music

I found this interesting document, maybe it might be of interest

http://dspace.unive.it/bitstream/handle/10579/1829/833978-1160895.pdf?sequence=2

scelsi wrote:

i was wondering if there is anyone who feels up to suggesting some "methodology" of approach to the analysis of Feldman's scores...

I would focus on the analysis of sound events in relation to time

scelsi wrote:

i was wondering if there is anyone who feels up to suggesting some "methodology" of approach to the analysis of Feldman's scores...

I would start, for example, with String Quartet (II), with the score and the "palette" of panels at hand... there are only 128 events, each taking place on a page ... the whole thing lasts about 5 and a half hours

And then I would reflect on European music of the '80s

what would be the palette of the panels?

in the meantime I report this site dedicated to him:

http://www.cnvill.net/mfhome.htm

First we go see each other, look at the mail

thanks frank!

i also wanted to draw attention to this piece for solo organ by feldman:

i don't know if you notice how the organ "sounds" timbrally very "feldman". the more I delve into feldman's music, the more it seems to me that his true starting point is this acoustic imagination of a "sound" and that all other parameters, see length, repetitions etc etc (among others changed over the years) are techniques to transcribe this "sound".

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I had Frank send me the material; indeed, in a very dilated way, I find the technique of Nono/Scelsi when working with panels and differentiating a block that is proposed in repetition.

Just to make an initial comparison Feldman v/Occcindete ....

Tiger wrote:

Frank sent me the material; indeed, in a very expanded way, I find the technique of Nono/Scelsi when working with panels and differentiating a block that is proposed in repetition.

Just to make an initial comparison between Feldman v/Occcindete ....

tiger, just to get a little more into the specifics, in which works of Nono/Scelsi do you find this panel-based work comparable to Feldman?

Tiger wrote:

Frank sent me the material; indeed, in a very expanded way, I find the technique of Nono/Scelsi when working with panels and differentiating a block that is proposed in repetition.

Just to make an initial comparison between Feldman v/Occcindete ....

tiger, just to get a bit more concrete, in which works of Nono/Scelsi do you find this panel-based work comparable to Feldman?

In the microtonal pieces, look at the piece proposed by Frank by Scelsi and that of Nono for microtonal orchestra

scelsi wrote:

tiger, just to get a little more concrete, in which works of Nono/Scelsi do you find this panel work comparable to Feldman?

In the microtonal pieces, see the piece proposed by Frank from Scelsi and that of Nono for microtonal orchestra

carlo scarpa the architect? uhm... interesting...

In effect, what for Nono is 2 measures, for Scelsi is a line, for Feldman is a page

However, in the first two we speak of defocusing; in Feldman's quartet... the sound events are very different

...we appear...we disappear...