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Klavier / Christiansen, Henning., 1965

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Identifier: CC-58287-10001520

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Scope and Contents

His music scores were dubbed "new simplicity' & this score is an example of that genre. Internet: How are these new cases of Henning Christiansen? The something quite very easy to describe. The first movement of his "Perceptive constructions' for example a chord in different (carefully planned) design butt out to the listener. The items each time exactly 10 seconds. The breaks items also exactly 10 seconds. So the rational design: a complete mechanical arrangement of the materials. Many might say: u-organic, un-musical. And it's probably also intended by Henning Christiansen's side. His music, with its "objective" character and its rationality rebellion against Cage-school zenagtige given himself up to randomness. But it is also, and primarily, a reaction against the particular kind of chance called 'natural' musical and motor responses, which in turn is reflected by the composer's subjective-private feeling tension. He puts a mechanism in time, there should be no urgent message from composer to listener. He wants these chords and sound bodies to stand as a kind of 'objective data, their formal arrangement, their temporal proportions, not for what possibly might lie behind the need for expression, emotional forces and so on. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1965

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 drawing (recto, ink, handwriting, letraset, verso, green rubberstamped signature) in papercard) ; 28 x 22 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

study small notebook

Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift, 1980.

General

Published: Mon, Denmark : [Publisher not identified]. Nationality of creator: Danish. General: About 1 total copies. General: Added by: MARVIN; updated by: MARVIN.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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