Beautiful looking scores

[Maciek]

We had this on the old board.

Go ahead, Greta!

[Greta]

This is by Patrick Dorobisz, a minimalist in France, who is also an artist:

"TWO" (1998)
Computer Sonate for Violin, Viola, and Computer



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.

[Maciek]

I think this one is pretty. Pretty nice.

Hans-Cristoph Steiner's graphical score for Solitude.

[bhodges]

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

[Maciek]

I don't know them either. I found the Hans-Cristoph Steiner score by accident when googling for something else.

[toledobass]

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


Allan

[lukeottevanger]

I put a Harrison score sample here, on the Mystery score thread. I have a few more samples on here somewhere... here's a nicely drawn one:

[lukeottevanger]

and this page goes with it

[toledobass]

Thanks Luke.  I'll have to start checking out Mystery Score a little more often.

Allan

[lukeottevanger]

Too right - my favourite GMG thread ever, by some distance! On page 77 (of 86), after the first few hundred scores had been guessed, I put up this link, 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.

[Ugh!]

Time to re-resurrect this thread, one of the most wonderful threads on the old forum...



Mauricio Kagel, Transition I.



Percy Grainger, Blind Eyed Score

[springrite]

I would love to have a couple of visually beautiful scores on my walls!

[karlhenning]

I would love to have a couple of visually beautiful scores on my walls!

You'd have to perform them all the time.

[Ugh!]

Jem Finer: Longplayer, A Proposed Score for 6 Players, 2002.
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...

[lukeottevanger]

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! 

[Maciek]

In that case (Luke admitting he wouldn't guess these) I should have posted them there.

[lukeottevanger]

Let's just say a clue or two may have been called for! 

[lukeottevanger]

Are you hatching nefarious score-related plans, by any chance, Maciek?  0:)

[Maciek]

Oh, yes, yes, yes, I am. Ever since downloading and going through Tchaikovsky's entire piano output (or nearly all of it) in vain search of a simple, mazurka-like ( ) 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]

[Maciek]

Nights, dammit, nights!!!