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Article: Essays in actionism: Wolpe's pieces for three pianists.(Critical Essay)
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- Perspectives of New Music
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- June 22, 2002
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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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