[NewMusic] 200 years before Ives

[Damon Smith]

He was really something. Barry Guy and his wife Maya perform his work  
a lot. He also used to prepare the double bass with parchment and  
have it played col lengo to imitate a snare drum.
On Nov 1, 2007, at 3:12 PM, Jacob Lindsay wrote:

> 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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