Conlon Nancarrow's Study # 27 for Player Piano Viewed Analytically
1983; Perspectives of New Music; Volume: 22; Issue: 1/2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/832942
ISSN2325-7180
Autores Tópico(s)Music and Audio Processing
ResumoNancarrow's Study #27 for Player Piano, subtitled Canon -5%/6%/8%/11%, is an example of modern polyphony created using temporal compositional techniques to which pitch, dynamics and ordinary rhythmic techniques are of secondary importance. The composer originally punched the piece onto two player piano rolls to be played successively on two player pianos. Gordon Mumma suggested that he had to repunch the piece onto a single roll moving at a slower speed because it was impossible to get the second piano to begin at the same tempo that the first finished.' However, Nancarrow explains:
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