[NewMusic] 200 years before Ives

[Philip Gelb]

When i was in graduate school, my roomate at the time,
Matthew Sperry came home with some LPs of Biber and
was all excited about the way the bass was prepared on
this "old" music. It was the first time i became
familiar with Biber's music and have been a fan since.

--- Damon Smith <Damon at balancepointacoustics.com>
wrote:

> 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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