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Label: New World Records
Cat No: NW80711
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 18th April 2011
Contents
Works
Vigilante 1938 - A DanceIV
March
Movements (3) for Percussion
Percussion, op.14
Percussion Suite
Waltz
Return
Auto Accident
Inventories (3) of Casey Jones
Dance Rhythms
Percussion Music
Artists
Meehan/Perkins DuoBaylor Percussion Group
Works
Vigilante 1938 - A DanceIV
March
Movements (3) for Percussion
Percussion, op.14
Percussion Suite
Waltz
Return
Auto Accident
Inventories (3) of Casey Jones
Dance Rhythms
Percussion Music
Artists
Meehan/Perkins DuoBaylor Percussion Group
About
After the premiere of Varèse’s Ionisation in New York in 1933, the “percussion orchestra” became the new avant-garde. Percussion was seen as not only the last frontier of traditional instrumentation, but also as expressive of the machine age and the rhythm of modern life. American composers saw it as especially their own: a music of American energy and experimentation, as well as a revolution in music not derived from European ideas.
This historic recording at last presents some of the most overlooked efforts from the early period of percussion music (only Johanna Beyer’s IV and Henry Cowell’s Return are known to have been previously recorded). All from the 1930s, these works are connected through the activity of Cowell. It spotlights the surprisingly different directions composers took in this new idiom. Some works are overtly programmatic and even satiric, yet they experiment with unconventional playing techniques, found objects as instruments, and the playful contortion of traditional musical forms.
The inclusion of the Humphrey exhibits the beginning of a long relationship between modern dance and percussion, which became furthered in the work of John Cage after he became acquainted with these pieces. Perhaps most striking are the works by Beyer, whose conceptual and process-based aesthetic presaged the most daring American experimental music for years to come. Her complete works for percussion form the core of this collection of seminal works.
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