Contemporary Composers on Contemporary Music by Elliott Schwartz

Author:Elliott Schwartz [Elliott Schwartz and Barney Childs With Jim Fox]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2012-03-03T05:00:00+00:00

Comparing the effect of one sound source with that of many: a recent example (1964) in which the same music was rehearsed in two different spatial arrangements in the same hall.

The diagram below shows the distribution plan for my Voyage Four, as originally conceived, and as exactly carried out at the first performance.

At the first rehearsal, the entire forces were jammed together on the stage in a conventional symphonic seating arrangement. The effects of this procedure were as follows:

Resonance was limited, sonorities were “cramped”–there seemed to be comparatively little volume even in the large tuttis, and that seemed “thin” in quality. Balances were poor, not all the parts being audible; the complex textures were unclear–the numerous impinging contrasted tone qualities sounding over the same octave, from closely adjacent positions, produced an irritating effect of meaningless non-relationship.

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