Word: stimmung
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Derrida agreed, and with Carole Bouquet and Stockhausen's Stimmung behind them, they read it. The cassette was sold with a version of the text...
...later, listing contemporary composers who have been thrown back on their "innate, long denied sense of tonality," he says that Stockhausen's Stimmung "spends seventy minutes in B-flat major." In fact, Stimmung is a radically minimalist work consisting of six vocalists humming and chanting a low B-flat fundamental and its various overtones--seventy minutes of some kind of B-flat chord, but not the key of B-flat major by anybody's definition, and certainly not anything resembling tonality...
...shooting. Often it lasts for three hours without any interruption. Soldiers who have participated in the French offensive say that it was not so bad at the front. It is difficult to learn how much industry has suffered as this is kept in great secret. . . . "The frame of mind [Stimmung] was naturally sky-high during the summer. Everywhere one could hear the stereotype phrase: In three weeks the war is finished. In the meantime that has changed and the frame of mind is going downwards strongly. All people are more than nervous...
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