[NewMusic] 200 years before Ives

[Jacob Lindsay]

I was listening to some music by Heinrich Ignaz Franz
von Biber (a composer I'm not really familiar with,
but I was checking out some of the sources from which
Nyman ripped material for those early Greenaway
scores) and I'm listening to his "Battalia a 10" from
1693, and the second movement pops up and is 47
seconds of total dischord, chaos, pantonality, cross
meters, etc.  I don't quite believe what I am hearing,
so I have to replay it, and sure enough, that's what
it is.  So I check out the liner notes:

"The second movement, Die liederlich Gesellschaft von
allerley Humor, ("The dissolute company with all types
of humor")...simultaneously combines eight popular
songs...[with] different metrical structures and
different tonalities"

Biber notes "here it is dissonant everywhere, for thus
are the drunks accustomed to bellow with different
songs".

Precursor to Ives from 1693?

Jacob Lindsay
http://www.bayimproviser.com/artistdetail.asp?artist_id=44

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