Iannis Xenakis (, –, ) was a Greek and architect and major contributor to musical modernism. This -related article is a. You can help Wikiquote.
Quotes. ', and, above all, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all means of expression. It must aim through fixations which are landmarks, to draw one towards a total exaltation in which the individual mingles, losing his consciousness in a truth immediate, rare, enormous, and perfect. If a work of art succeeds in this undertaking even for a single moment, it attains its goal.' .
Download ePub File. Book description: Music and Architecture: Architectural Projects, Texts, and Realizations. (Iannis Xenakis) PDF Kindle takes readers on a. Psappha (Edition: Salabert, 1975) is a musical composition for multi-percussion solo by Greek modernist composer Iannis Xenakis. The work does not include.
Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition,. 'The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry.' . Formalized Music. 'Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which men can decipher in a thousand different ways without ever finding the right answer or the best one.' .
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