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Edgard Varèse: Music Analysis
The first piece was Intègrales by Edgard Varèse (1883-1965). Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse was a French-born composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States. He was innovator in 20th-century techniques of sound production. According to the www.allmusic.com, his concept of "organized sound" led to many experiments in form and texture. He was constantly on the lookout for new sound sources, and was one of the first to extensively explore percussion, electronics, and taped sounds. Intègrales was composed in 1925. I think this piece is very modern, and is a work for wind, brass, and percussion. I am not really enjoying this piece because it is a little noisy for me. The second piece is Coptic Light, and the composer …show more content…
The idea of the title of Coptic Light came to Feldman when he saw Coptic textiles in the Louvre, at Paris, France. Therefore, I imagine myself it the Louvre when I listen to this piece. I felt this piece is elusive, but gentle. The third piece is Central Park in the Dark by Charles Ives (1874-1954). Charles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer, and he was a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who had a non-traditional style, as seen in works like "Central Park in the Dark" and his sonatas. According to www.biography.com, Charles Edward Ives was born in Danbury, Connecticut. The young Ives, having learned piano and organ, composed original material as a teen and played for his nearby church. He composed the "Central Park in The Dark" from July through December 1906. Ives wrote detailed notes concerning the purpose and context of Central Park in the Dark: This piece purports to be a picture-in-sounds of the sounds of nature and of happenings that men would hear some thirty or so years ago (before the combustion engine and radio monopolized the earth and air), when sitting on a bench in Central Park on a hot summer

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