Eight Pieces for Four Timpani is a collection of short pieces by Elliott Carter for solo timpani – four drums played by one musician. Six of the pieces...
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resonance, but composers have exploited it in solo pieces such as Elliott Carter's Eight Pieces for Four Timpani. Resonance is reduced by damping or muting the...
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Elliott Carter (category Pulitzer Prize for Music winners)
Clarinet Concerto; Short Pieces. Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Lorraine Vaillancourt, cond. ATMA Classique, ACD2 2280. Complete Music for Piano. Charles Rosen...
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"Matribute" Eight Pieces for Four Timpani (1949/66) Changes for guitar (1983) Scrivo in Vento for flute (1991) Gra for clarinet, also version for trombone...
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JSTOR 3344039. S2CID 210503287. McGill, Thomas Scott (2020-01-01). "A Study Guide for Howard Hanson's "Harmonic Materials in Modern Music" Part I". {{cite journal}}:...
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bass clarinet, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, two percussionists, piano (doubling celesta)...
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Piano Concerto (Carter) (category Process music pieces)
upon techniques from two previous Carter's pieces: his String Quartet No. 2 (1959) and the Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Piano with Two Chamber Orchestras...
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bassoon), four horns, three trumpets, two trombones, bass trombone, tuba, timpani, six percussionists, harp, piano, and strings. The Concerto for Orchestra...
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contrabass clarinet), two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, three percussionists, harp, and strings. The...
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Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 for solo violin, 10 violins and timpani (1975–1977) Two Short Pieces for organ (1980) Cadenzas to Mozart's Piano...
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Soundings (Carter) (category Compositions for piano and orchestra)
contrabass clarinet, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, two percussionists, piano, and strings. Reviewing...
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contrabassoon), four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, three percussionists, piano, harp, and strings. Three Illusions for Orchestra has...
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and piano Eight lyrical pieces for flute and piano Works for organ solo: Organ worksVol. I-VI Four Suites for organ Three choral fantasies for organ Organ...
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two trumpets, two trombones, bass trombone, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, and strings. Variations for Orchestra has been praised by music critics. Anthony...
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which consists of eight movements, each one based on a selection of pieces from François Couperin's Pièces de Clavecin written for the solo harpsichord...
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trombone, timpani, and strings. The Symphony No. 1 has been praised by music critics. Reviewing a 2003 recording of the work (among other Carter pieces), Arnold...
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bass clarinet, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, four percussionists, harp, piano, and strings. The...
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comprises three horns, three trumpets, two trombones, bass trombone, tuba, timpani, and strings (7-8 desks of violins, 3-4 desks of violas, 2-3 desks of cellos...
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scored for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones (fourth movement only), timpani and...
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String Quartet No. 3 (Carter) (category Pulitzer Prize for Music-winning works)
intended to achieve the effect of two distinct ensemble groups playing two pieces at once, clashing in sound. However, he stressed the importance of observing...
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List of awards and nominations received by Elliott Carter (section Awards for career and lifetime achievements)
Retrieved 2017-02-24. "National Medal of Arts". arts.gov. National Endowment for the Arts. Retrieved 8 September 2020. "France Honors Elliott Carter With...
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String Quartet No. 5 (Carter) (category Process music pieces)
these are tetrachords, the third a hexachord. In Carter's Harmony Book, the four-note chords are numbers 18 and 23, and the six-note chord is number 35. The...
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String Quartet No. 1 (Carter) (category Process music pieces)
different pitch material of the pieces was derived. For example, my First String Quartet is based on an "all-interval" four-note chord, which is used constantly...
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op. 24 Suite for Piano, op. 25 Wind Quintet, op. 26 Four Pieces for mixed voices, op. 27 Suite for piano, piccolo clarinet, clarinet, bass clarinet, violin...
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String Quartet No. 2 (Carter) (category Process music pieces)
sit as far apart as possible so that they appear to be playing different pieces simultaneously. Each of the parts has its own different character: First...
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Boston Concerto (category Concertos for orchestra)
(3rd doubling bass clarinet), three bassoons (3rd doubling contrabassoon), four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, three percussionists, harp...
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essays on Number Pieces in general, One4, One9, Two2, Two3, Two4, Four, Four4, Twenty-Nine and 108. James Pritchett: Liner Notes: One8 for cello and curved...
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his fame as a concerto composer and is one of his most enduringly popular pieces. After the disastrous 1897 premiere of his First Symphony, Rachmaninoff...
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Concerto for Horn and Orchestra is a horn concerto by the American composer Elliott Carter. The work was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra for the...
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Symphony (redirect from Four-movement form)
flutes (sometimes replacing the oboes), separate parts for bassoons, clarinets, and trumpets and timpani. Works varied in their scoring concerning which of...
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