The Fantasia first movement of this composer's solo cello sonata opens with a slow all-interval tetrachord pizzicato arpeggio and features a short-long falling minor third motif.
The Fantasia first movement of this composer's solo cello sonata opens with a slow all-interval tetrachord pizzicato arpeggio and features a short-long falling minor third motif. A violin cadenza opens movement 4 of this composer's string quartet ";in romantic-phantastic style,"; leaping down from a ponticello AÂ–E chord to a D-sharp that becomes ";pure noise."; A tam-tamhit ushers in an ";ugly, obscene"; subharmonic version of the Dies Irae in the movement "Devil- music" from a work by this composer that later instructs players to whisper Hungarian numbers over maracas. A boy sings Garcia Lorca texts offstage and a soprano sings vocalise into a piano to open his Ancient Voices of Children. Threnodies titled ";Night of the Electric Insects"; bookend this composer's 1970 ";electric string quartet,"; while a 153-piece collection by BartÃ³k inspiredhis four volumes of Makrokosmos. For 10 points, name this avant-garde American composer ofBlack Angels.
The Fantasia first movement of this composer's solo cello sonata opens with a slow all-interval tetrachord pizzicato arpeggio and features a short-long falling minor third motif.
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