![]() ![]() Thus this piece still has connection with Western Art music in the sense that it is a program music. 1 Background edit As the name of the piece indicates, Vox Balaenae was inspired by whale songs. It was composed for performance by the New York Camerata in 1971. Without the program aspect of this piece, I would very like go to a different direction when try to make sense out of this piece. View history Tools Vox Balaenae ( Voice of the Whale ), is a work for electric flute, electric cello and amplified piano by the American avant-garde composer George Crumb. My own interpretation of the piece is that this piece’s emotion and tension has some connection with the very concepts of “Black Angel”, “Darkness”, and“Profanity”. 381158 Author / Composer, George Crumb Duration, 25 minutes Year of origin, 1970. The title, Black Angel, and its subtitle, “Thirteen Images from the Dark Land”, gives suggestions for the audience to establish their own listening experience according to the music and to the implication of the program. Black Angels (Images 1) Musical Editions, Ensemble score Item no. Program music is a tradition of the Western Art Music, fully developed during the Romantic period. For instance, I would like to label this music as a program music. These new techniques add new feelings into this piece.īlack Angel has some underlying connections with Western Art Music traditions. ![]() ![]() For instance, in some part, Crumb utilizes “scooping effects”, in which the high violins play fast glissandos to sound like crying and yelling in other parts, Crumb also uses violins to imitate a flute by bowing their strings with the back of the bow (the wood). These techniques produce a violent and grotesque quality for the piece. While in Beethoven’s String Quartet the violinists play their instruments with conventional standards, Crumb developed several techniques producing sounds that we did not hear previously. It reminds me of the extreme expressionist in the modernism era.Ĭompared with Beethoven’s String Quartet in F Major, Movement II, Black Angel does not have a form, a rhythmic pattern. Personally I really appreciate the frank and unconstraint anxiety the piece displays. The use of instrument is also challenged in this piece, with the violins being performed in unconventional way that will make a traditional violin teacher turn pale. It sounds like an experiment of dissonance intertwining with irregular beats in the rhythmic line. With exceptions of few fragments, the piece has no clear and consistent motifs, themes, or melody. Therefore, this piece is highly free and depends on the interpretation of the performers. instruments notated on the score at some point or another.7. Songs, Drones, and Refrains of Death is avant-garde in that it. and his most famous composition Black Angels (Images I: Thirteen Images from the Dark Land) (1970). Many parts in this work are not written in bar lines, making it impossible to have strict meters. George Crumb By Michael Taylor George Crumb is an American composer who was born in Charleston, West. Crumb basically gives each of these elements a new meaning in his work, Black Angel. At the beginning of the course, we learned basic musical elements to be rhythm, meter, tempo, pitch, melody, dynamics, instrumental textures, harmony, tonality and form, etc. Crumb’s work challenges almost every aspect of the definition for music. ![]()
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