We had this on the old board (http://www.good-music-guide.com/forum/index.php/topic,7490.0.html).
Go ahead, Greta!
This is by Patrick Dorobisz, a minimalist in France, who is also an artist:
"TWO" (1998)
Computer Sonate for Violin, Viola, and Computer (http://www.patrickdorobisz.com/Page_43x.html)
(http://www.patrickdorobisz.com/Page_43/IMAG0001.JPG)
Okay, I am still trying to figure this one out. The piece title is a link to his page which has close-ups of the score, sound clips, and explains how the piece is supposed to work. It seems to have a concept similar to Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians" and Riley's "In C', except, apparently the listener can also become a "musician" by selecting which tracks on the CD to play and for how long. In his words: the result of the computer sonate is your artistic expression not with rules but with a "frame" Cool concept I think. :) Nice composition too.
I think this one is pretty. Pretty nice. ;D
Hans-Cristoph Steiner's graphical score for Solitude.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/52/Solitude.png/800px-Solitude.png)
These are both fantastic! And I have not heard of either composer, so very interesting to get acquainted with them in this way, first.
--Bruce
I don't know them either. I found the Hans-Cristoph Steiner score by accident when googling for something else. 8)
On the old board I had commented that Lou Harrison had some of the most beautiful scores I'd ever seen. He was a great at calligraphy and while I still haven't found an example of a score to post I did find an example of his writing. Scroll over the pic (also check out the different ensembles repertoire, cool stuff. This was my undergrad conductor.)
Harrison calligraphy example (http://www.nicolepaiement.com/)
Allan
I put a Harrison score sample here (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,3125.msg95940.html#msg95940), on the Mystery score thread. I have a few more samples on here somewhere... here's a nicely drawn one:
and this page goes with it
Thanks Luke. I'll have to start checking out Mystery Score a little more often.
Allan
Too right - my favourite GMG thread ever, by some distance! On page 77 (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,3125.msg128472.html#msg128472)(of 86), after the first few hundred scores had been guessed, I put up this link (http://www.esnips.com/nsdoc/7e9d008e-de82-4a3d-8291-e59d1e53c2a9), which is a large PDF of all the scores that had been put up to that point. That will save you flicking through the first 77 pages! But there are still quite a large number after that point.
Time to re-resurrect this thread, one of the most wonderful threads on the old forum...
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_y7gBPwHoDNs/SNlIjYc-GkI/AAAAAAAAAQM/FwUTtAo6mZw/s400/RMK+Transicion+II+-+score+page+with+wheels.jpg)
Mauricio Kagel, Transition I.
(http://u21museums.unimelb.edu.au/museumcollections/melbourne/images/Grainger_BlindEye_ScoreM.jpg)
Percy Grainger, Blind Eyed Score
I would love to have a couple of visually beautiful scores on my walls!
Quote from: springrite on October 22, 2008, 04:59:13 AM
I would love to have a couple of visually beautiful scores on my walls!
You'd have to perform them all the time.
(http://longplayer.org/img/what-survival-score-07score.gif)
Jem Finer: Longplayer, A Proposed Score for 6 Players, 2002.
http://longplayer.org/what/survival/graphicscore.php (http://longplayer.org/what/survival/graphicscore.php)
This one is interesting since it actually makes intuitively sense in the way it uses waveforms in the score...
Quote from: Ugh! on October 22, 2008, 04:54:30 AM
Time to re-resurrect this thread, one of the most wonderful threads on the old forum...
A wonderful thread, to be sure, nearly as wonderful as its more bulky big brother, the mystery scores quiz (700+ scores now)! You should have posted these there - no one would ever guess them! ;D
In that case (Luke admitting he wouldn't guess these) I should have posted them there. >:D
Let's just say a clue or two may have been called for! ;)
Are you hatching nefarious score-related plans, by any chance, Maciek? 0:)
Oh, yes, yes, yes, I am. >:D >:D >:D Ever since downloading and going through Tchaikovsky's entire piano output (or nearly all of it) in vain search of a simple, mazurka-like ( ;D) melody, I spend all my sleepless nights scheming.
But nothing will come of it, at least for a while - not enough time. :-\
[EDIT: stupidly omitted word added]
Nights, dammit, nights!!! >:(
Quote from: Maciek on October 22, 2008, 05:42:26 AM
Oh, yes, yes, yes, I am. >:D >:D >:D Ever since downloading and going through Tchaikovsky's entire piano output (or nearly all of it) in vain search of a simple, mazurka-like ( ;D) melody, I spend all my sleepless nights scheming.
But nothing will come of it, at least for a while - not enough time. :-\
But I didn't at any point mislead you, did I? I was most helpful, I thought. All questions answered with scrupulous honesty. 0:)
Guido should have got it anyway - he's supposed to be a big fan of that piece. >:D
Well, I guess that should console me a little... >:D
(http://rogerbourland.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/george-crumb-makrokosmos-ii-12.jpg)
George Crumb, Makrokosmos II.
As I said, Eugene, get thee hither to the mystery scores thread - we could do with you over there! (The Crumb one you just posted has been on that thread, #222 of the ones I've set). Another gorgeous-looking score, fit to stand beside Makrokosmos, because like that piece, every page of this one is special, is Shaffer's Apocalypse of St John - here are two pages from it that I posted on the mystery scores thread a long time ago (my #164 a and b):
Quote from: Ugh! on October 23, 2008, 01:45:18 AM
(http://rogerbourland.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/george-crumb-makrokosmos-ii-12.jpg)
George Crumb, Makrokosmos II.
Alright! Now that I have the score to this section, I will listen with the score tomorrow!
[looks shiftily around] Fancy the score to the whole thing, squire? I have it around here somewhere, might be able to provide a link....
Quote from: lukeottevanger on October 23, 2008, 05:15:27 AM
[looks shiftily around] Fancy the score to the whole thing, squire? I have it around here somewhere, might be able to provide a link....
That sure would be nice. I do not have ANY scores after
Le Sacre. It'd be an interesting listening and learning experience for me, for sure.
Quote from: lukeottevanger on October 23, 2008, 01:57:07 AM
As I said, Eugene, get thee hither to the mystery scores thread
Could be worse,
Eugene; he might have said
To a nunnery go.
Quote from: springrite on October 23, 2008, 05:20:33 AM
That sure would be nice. I do not have ANY scores after Le Sacre.
Oh, we'll have to send you a Henning score; bring you right into the 21st century!
Edit :: typo
I'll try to dig it out. But it's possible that the disc on which it is saved in PDF form is missing at the moment in the chaos that I call home... :-[
Quote from: karlhenning on October 23, 2008, 05:21:04 AM
Could be worse, Eugene; he might have said To a nunnery go.
I couldn't do that to the poor nuns.
Quote from: lukeottevanger on October 23, 2008, 05:22:31 AM
I couldn't do that to the poor nuns.
You have always been a model of decorum,
Luke.
That's genius for you.
Quote from: lukeottevanger on October 23, 2008, 05:22:31 AM
I couldn't do that to the poor nuns.
Yes, me and nuns tend to be a messy affair 0:)
Quote from: Ugh! on October 23, 2008, 06:34:34 AM
Yes, me and nuns tend to be a messy affair 0:)
i didn't see anything......
Quote from: Ugh! on October 23, 2008, 06:34:34 AM
Yes, me and nuns tend to be a messy affair 0:)
;D
(http://spiralcage.com/improvMeeting/pics/TreatisePage183.jpg)
Cornelius Cardew, Treatise. A monster of a graphic score
More on this and others at Pictures of music:
http://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/picturesofmusic/index2.html (http://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/picturesofmusic/index2.html)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/52/Solitude.png/800px-Solitude.png)
Hans Christian Steiner, Solitude
(http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/assets/img/data/2097/bild.jpg)
(http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/assets/img/data/2098/bild.jpg)
(http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/assets/img/data/2099/bild.jpg)
(http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/assets/img/data/2100/bild.jpg)
Quote from: Ugh! on November 07, 2008, 12:26:49 AM
Hans Christian Steiner, Solitude
Naughty boy, you've not read the whole thread through! >:D
Quote from: Maciek on November 07, 2008, 01:57:37 AM
Naughty boy, you've not read the whole thread through! >:D
:-X
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/47/150301671_ca7d422981.jpg?v=0)
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/56/150301737_3776586bbc.jpg?v=0)
a classic by now :)
I like Szymanowski's scores :) In the 2nd SYMPHONY he writes for instance "dolce" for timpani- that's cute :P
Baude Cordier's ballade "Belle, bonne, sage"
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/CordierColor.jpg/469px-CordierColor.jpg)
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4034/4695191162_3f4cd3ebc8_b.jpg)
Hamelin could play that blindfolded, with both hands tied behind his back.
It's worth mentioning here the fair copy that Fanny Hensel made of 'Das Jahr' on coloured paper and illustrated with water-colours by her husband. I can't show you an example here but it has now been published in facsimile so you may well come across it.
Quote from: Greg on June 13, 2010, 04:54:56 AM
Hamelin could play that blindfolded, with both hands tied behind his back.
With his toes, that's right.
(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_hVOW2U7K4-M/ScbXH2kfIxI/AAAAAAAA86k/wvcHILEhYFw/s720/trkuetyjryhjdfgf.jpg)
We are the world sheet music...
(http://www.roumazeilles.net/news/fr/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/wbm.jpg)
The only well-preserved manuscript page of Janacek´s Jenufa, exhibited in Brno´s Janacek Museum.
Beautiful, because of its expressive, painterly effects & the traces of the artist´s struggling, creative process, IMO.
But a tough one for those that had to decipher its details.
Not one of the best sheets to look at; one might think they don't want to share it... :(, but the most interesting and attractive score I've seen close-up is Debussy's La Mer at the Sibley Music Library/Eastman School. As they say: "One of only three extant manuscript sources of this celebrated orchestral composition (1905), this is a particelle, or short score ─ a detailed sketch or draft, in condensed form, with parts for closely related instruments appearing on single staves. This magnificent manuscript is the Sibley Music Library's single most celebrated holding. The composer's painstakingly fine penmanship, and the multiplicity of colored pencils, never fail to draw admiring comment."
Quote from: sanantonio on January 27, 2017, 10:19:26 AM
A page of the Kyrie from La Messe de Nostre Dame by Guillaume de Machaut
(https://psallentes.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/machault-kyrie.jpg)
I'm a sucker for Machaut. This score is beautiful!
Quote from: sanantonio on January 28, 2017, 03:20:00 PM
Welcome to GMG! There are a few of us who post regularly on the Machaut thread (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,24755.0.html) as well as the Early Music Club (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,3732.0.html).
Check them out.
;)
Thanks! I am checking it out as I type this. :)
Quote from: Saul on June 13, 2010, 06:58:28 AM
(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_hVOW2U7K4-M/ScbXH2kfIxI/AAAAAAAA86k/wvcHILEhYFw/s720/trkuetyjryhjdfgf.jpg)
We are the world sheet music...
(http://www.roumazeilles.net/news/fr/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/wbm.jpg)
Cool! I am a native of Guelph.