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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...