Title: American Percussion Works Artist: Rdam'S Percussion Ensemble Percurama Asmussen Walentin Thorel Label: Naxos Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 747313424474 Genre: Classical Artists Release Date: 2021-01-29 Number of Discs: 1
American Percussion Works is a rare collection of seldom heard works each with specific rules or themes as a basis for the compositions. In John Cage's First Construction the principle is based on the figure 16. Alberto Ginatera's work Cantata para America Magica, uses pre-Columbian texts based on the conditions of human life, with war, natural phenomena, daybreak, night and love. Lou Harrison mixes non-European forms which 'follow the pattern of having a single melodic part accompanied (or enhanced) by rhythmic percussion' in his Koncherto. Varese's Ionisation also enters a new land being his first solely percussive work where 'he finds a new grammar for the language of music.'
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