Article: Essays in actionism: Wolpe's pieces for three pianists.(Critical Essay)

BETWEEN 1944 AND 1949 Wolpe composed an extensive series of compositional studies that have been collected as Music for Any Instruments. Many have titles that are concerned with particular pitch-class sets, but Two Studies for Piano, Part I from 1946 has a subtitle that points to a larger agenda: "Displaced spaces, Shocks, Negations, A new sort of relationship in space, Pattern, Tempo, Diversity of actions, Interreactions and intensities." The vision was of a music that disrupts homogeneous musical space with a dialectic between actions that are strongly opposed in character (pattern and tempo) and interreact (shocks, negations) in various ways. In 1947 Wolpe completed ...

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