Karlheinz Stockhausen: Klavierstück IV [with score]

pf: Aloys Kontarsky

"The composer specifically cited Klavierstück IV as an example of point music (Stockhausen 1964, 19). This piece is written in strictly linear two-part counterpoint, and features progressive shortening of fundamental durations by serial fractions. Each note is either followed or preceded by a rest, and so the termination of a note can serve as a reference to a point in time (as an alternative to the beginning of the note playing the same role) (Maconie 2005, 120--21). The identities of the two contrapuntal strands are achieved not through register or pitch material, but solely through dynamics: one line is loud (predominantly ff), and the other soft (predominantly pp) (Harvey 1975, 24--25; Maconie 2005, 121). However, these distinct dynamic categories are eroded over the course of the piece by the increasing addition of inermediate dynamic values (Frisius 1996, 133). Pierre Boulez was an early admirer of the piece: he praised it in a 1953 article written for Pierre Schaeffer (Boulez 1967), and sent John Cage a copy of the ending (Nattiez and Samuels 1995, 140--41)."

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• stockhausen
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• klavierstücke
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[scalassaraprando]

It's like a cat walking in the piano, but this cat it's fucking GREAT and CRAZY...

I hope one day all my cats can play a piano like this.

ahahahahhahahahahahahahahahaha­hahahahaha

[MINORSECONDXXI]

@scalassaraprando If it has mastered serial technique, then you bet... it's gotta be a pretty good cat...!

[Germanybash]

Sounds weird and scary, but I can play sth like that xD