Intégrales

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In counterpoint: The 20th century
…counterpoint purely of tone colours, Intégrales (1925) by Edgard Varèse presents 11-note “sound-clouds” in the wind instruments in opposition to the sounds of a large battery of percussion instruments. This approach probably grew directly out of earlier experiments with polytonality, but here tone colours, rather than keys or tones, are…
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