On another level, ZYKLUS is a kind of showpiece for different percussive timbres. In a way, this piece can be enjoyed purely as 'cartoon music' - that is, it is constantly changing, dynamics are all over the place, and there is a feeling of youthful vitality in all the rim shots and glissandi. In that spirit, I'll detail some broad strokes before going over the structural stuff. Actually for most people it may be more fun to just listen without knowing the theoretical structures underneath it. Like MANTRA, ZYKLUS has lots of underlying theory which is not easy to hear when just listening to it (especially without the score). Sadly, it seems the competition performance of ZYKLUS didn't actually win the contest, but it was still the first major composition for a soloist on multiple percussion instruments (13 in all). In fact MITTWOCH AUS LICHT's 2nd Act is titled ORCHESTRE FINALISTEN (Orchestra Finalists). This kind of opportunity to write for would-be virtuosos to prove themselves would pop up from time to time, even up to 1997's KLAVIERSTUCKE XVII, written for the Micheli Competition (and derived from part of FREITAG AUS LICHT). Stockhausen wrote ZYKLUS for solo percussionists to use as a music competition piece, specifically for the Kranichstein Music Competition in 1959.

Show works by type/instrument.1959 (9-15') External links.Īlternative Names/Transliterations: Franz Anton Adam Stockhausen.

Alternative Names/Transliterations: Franz Anton Adam Stockhausen.

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Mantra is a composition by the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen.It was composed in 1970 and premiered in autumn of the same year at the Donaueschingen Festival.The work is scored for two ring-modulated pianos each player is also equipped with a chromatic set of crotales (antique cymbals) and a wood block, and one player is equipped with a short-wave radio producing morse code or a.

(Cycle) for solo percussionist (snare drum, hi-hat, triangle, vibraphone, gongs, güiro, marimba, bells, tom-tom drums, etc.) Tom-tom and marimba cycles occur in both iterations.

The number of different timbres increases and decreases twice.

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