"Synthesized Poetry" on the musical composition "Poème Électronique" by Edgar Varèse
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Title: Synthesized Poetry
Edgar Varèse's musical composition "Poème Électronique" is the first musical piece that was composed solely with synthesized sounds. This piece caused quite a disturbance upon its debut in 1948 at a multimedia exhibition in conjunction with the debut of the Phillips Pavilion The audience either disliked the piece with a passion or stood in awe of its magnificence. After a half century …
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…that started from Edgar Varèse's "Poème Électronique" and other pioneers like him. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Work Cited Ewen, Daniel. The World of Twentieth Century Music. Englewood Cliffs: Princeton-Hall, 1968. Hoffer, Charles. Music Listening Today. 2nd.Belmont: Thomas Schirmer, 2003. Russcol, Herbert. The Liberation of Sound: An Introduction to Electronic Music. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1972. Schaefer, John. New Sounds: Listener's Guide to New Music. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1987.
…that started from Edgar Varèse's "Poème Électronique" and other pioneers like him. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Work Cited Ewen, Daniel. The World of Twentieth Century Music. Englewood Cliffs: Princeton-Hall, 1968. Hoffer, Charles. Music Listening Today. 2nd.Belmont: Thomas Schirmer, 2003. Russcol, Herbert. The Liberation of Sound: An Introduction to Electronic Music. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1972. Schaefer, John. New Sounds: Listener's Guide to New Music. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1987.
