Ryoanji (Flute)
By: John Cage
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ScorePublisher: New York City; Henmar Press Inc. 1984Edition: Scores.Description: 17 p. Musical Scores.Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: Composed between 1983 and 1985, the four soloists play sliding pitches, shapes traced from the outlines of fifteen stones trhat compromise the famous Zen Buddhist rock garden in Kyoto. The orchestra of 20 performers play steady, widely-spaced pulses but not together - notations indicate when an individual performer plays slightly before, slightly after, and "more or less" on the beat, with microtonal slides on the one pitch or sound that has been chosen by the performer (rather than the composer) for the entire performance. Using these two basic ingredients - the sliding tones for the soloists and the "Korean unison" beats for the orchestra - Cage created a work of gentle suspense and plaintive beauty. This feeling, or sensibility, also occurs in performances of the original version of this piece for one or more soloists and a percussionist. The Ryoanji score for Flute is to be played with percussion or orchestral obbligatio and ad libitum with other pieces of the same title.
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Composed between 1983 and 1985, the four soloists play sliding pitches, shapes traced from the outlines of fifteen stones trhat compromise the famous Zen Buddhist rock garden in Kyoto. The orchestra of 20 performers play steady, widely-spaced pulses but not together - notations indicate when an individual performer plays slightly before, slightly after, and "more or less" on the beat, with microtonal slides on the one pitch or sound that has been chosen by the performer (rather than the composer) for the entire performance. Using these two basic ingredients - the sliding tones for the soloists and the "Korean unison" beats for the orchestra - Cage created a work of gentle suspense and plaintive beauty. This feeling, or sensibility, also occurs in performances of the original version of this piece for one or more soloists and a percussionist. The Ryoanji score for Flute is to be played with percussion or orchestral obbligatio and ad libitum with other pieces of the same title.
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