“Use 19 Metal Pieces of Approximately the Same Timbre”. An Analysis of Twelve Recorded Performances of Xenakis’s Métaux (Pléïades)
The sixxen is a microtonal percussion instrument designed by Iannis Xenakis for Métaux and Mélanges from his 1978 composition Pléïades. The instructions for building this instrument are non-specific; the timbre of the instrument and its specific pitch content are up for the constructor to determine....
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| Language: | deu |
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Olms (only printed volumes 2003-2017)
2021-06-01
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| Series: | Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie |
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| Online Access: | https://storage.gmth.de/zgmth/pdf/1106 |