wonderful ride for a singer or a voice.

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	• Aria, voice (any range) John Cage C.F. Peters, 1960 - 20 pages average customer review:based on 1 review
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wonderful ride for a singer or a voice.

if you are vocalist and need some distraction(s), or something fascinating to work on that will test your own creative abilities, that will test your ability to make music from a concept with a slightest of pitch indications given, this is a piece for you. If you need to hide behind an accompnaiment, especially if this is your first time performing John Cage's graphic notational works Cage allows you to utilize an accompaniment from his other works, the "Concert for Piano" can be used, as well as the various "Solos For. . . " that can accompany the"Conbcert for Piano", many have beren used to great success and effect/affect as Solos, as Stuart Dempster on Trombone, or Bertrum Turetsky, as well as countless others. the "Aria" is written on a number of pages, like a "screeen", each page, where the reigster is simply given as a continuous wavy lines like a sinusoidal waves, or vibrational waves. Then there is another contiguous line that is coloured, red, blue,green,yellow, each colour can be designated by the performer as a particualt singing or cultural style, as folk, or jazz or various subjectivities, as sensual, or neurotic, or anxiety ridden, or sexually playful, or serious vibrato filled soprano or Basso. What is curious would be to do a statistical study on what is the frequency of styles utilized for each time this piece was performed, I would be happy with say 100 performances, since it was written in the late Fifties. Cathy Berberian the Diva of the Fifties avant-garde was wondrous, did magical things with this work. It can move fairly fast for the perfomer decides how fast each page is perfomred. It cannot be instantaneous for each page contains more than one style to be projected,but as fast as humanly possible to change the timbre of the voice to suggest these changes would be the performative norm.

It is a lotta fun I think for you can make the work as serious and complex, and convoluted as you wich, one caveat that performing Cage is not an invitation simply to do whatever you want without a sense that you are in fact playing a piece of music that has a context within the post-war avant-garde, and it does have serious references to the history of 20th Century expression, Marcel Duchamp, Dada, and the post -war, post serial avant-garde, or should we now say post-modernity, since the work has really renuous references to high modernity.

You also can utilize the encyclopedic "Songbooks" of Cage if this "Aria" has wetted you appetitite and you crave more of this stuff..It can become an obsession for the mere thought of freedom excites the imagination and one's creative consitution, I guess since the freedoms we do have always seem to be mortgaged into the futre, some how in some way, in some reference to post 9/11 reality..

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