Word: pythagorean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite its Pythagorean formality, however, Xenakis' music bears his ingeniously personal mark. For instance, during a composition called Eonta (which means "beings" in Greek) three trombonists and two trumpeters march to and fro about the stage while a pianist flays wildly away at the keyboard. In Terretektorh (one of the coined Greek words that he uses to title his pieces), the musicians blow whistles, rattle maracas, clap wooden blocks and crack small whips besides coaxing unearthly sounds from conventional instruments. As in Terretektorh, the entire orchestra will be scattered throughout the audience during the world premi...
...Dutch art movement, whose standard-bearer was Piet Mondrian, made more than rules for good design. It was a heavily Platonic philosophy of art, carried out in mighty Pythagorean paintings, that saw pure beauty as the universal means of reaching Utopia. Wrote Mondrian: "Abstract art is opposed to the raw primitive animal nature of man, but it is one with true human nature...