Word: organum
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...effect is roughly like listening to medieval organum (primitive polyphony) done up in the manner of Switched-On Bach. Beyond the "accidental" harmonies achieved by the passage of contrapuntal ships in an electronic night, Boulez also uses what he calls pilot tones (not unlike pedal point) to achieve, at times, gripping harmonic tension. All in all, Boulez has made a daring experiment in what might be called kaleidosonics...
...colleagues and neighbors staged a concert of his complete works. There were a song cycle, Vox damans in Deserto, a piano suite called Evocations and a short composition for muted brass called Angels. Most impressive was the granite-hewn intensity of his orchestral miniatures, Men and Mountains, Portals and Organum. His most ambitious work, the tone poem Sun Treader glinted with an ice-age grandeur, evoking craggy ranges and northern lights...
...prologue, Hubley celebrates man's capacity to know-and to know that he knows. In five principal chapters (Space, Time, Matter, Energy, Life), he expounds the physical universe as man has come to know it. And in an epilogue, he imagines where man stands in the novum organum: a puzzled inflection of star stuff, a mote of mind that glitters for a moment on the grand galactic stream...
...Such men, along with scores of their colleagues both in the U.S. and abroad, made 1960 a golden year in the ever advancing Age of Science, which had its tentative beginnings in the Renaissance. In 1620 Britain's Lord Chancellor Francis Bacon, in his Novum Organum (New Instrument), wrote: "Man, by the fall lost his empire over creation, which can be partially recovered, even in this life, by the arts and sciences." The 340 years that have passed since Novum Organum have seen far more scientific change than all the previous 5,000 years...
...composite Mass made up of selections from different composers will be one of the evening's highlights. William Hess of New York, famous minnesanger and troubador singer, will head the list of soloists. An all-male chorus and three soloists will sing an organum by Perotini...