John's C.M.", "Invitation L.M.", "Transmigration", "Chester L.M.", and "The Lilly P.M.". The 13 three-part songs that Cage chose are "Alpha C.M.", "Majesty C.M.", "Harmony C.M.", "Creation L.M.", "Hallowell S.M.", "Advent C.M.", "Turner L.M.", "Sunday C.M.", "St. This gives the work rich timbral modulation. The task of the six assistants is to activate (pull) or de-activate (push) stops at the appropriate times. The three parts of the settings are divided up on the two manuals with ten and twelve stops and the pedal with nine stops. The registrations (tabs on the organ that determine which pipe a note will be sounded from and thus the timbre) are indicated in Cage's score by a numerical code, allowing the organist freedom in fixing the correspondence of the stops (registers) to the code numbers. In "Some of the 'Harmony of Maine' ", Cage again used chance operations to determine whether (1) a note is used or not, (2) how long the note should be held, and (3) what registration it should have on the organ. In Cage's previous work "Cheap Imitation", he had utilized Erik Satie's opera "Socrate" (which because of the prohibitive cost of the rights for performance could not be used by the Cunningham Dance Company) and, composing by a kind of filtering through chance operations, produced a work that incorporated in a unique way melodic and modal gestures used in the Satie work - a form of "music about music". This way of singing can still be heard today in the Sacred Harp conventions throughout the southern states. ![]() ![]() ![]() Composed in 1978, this piece utilizes 13 three-part songs from the book of 60 part songs entitled "The Harmony of Maine" published in 1794 in Boston by Supply Belcher, one of the early American composer/arrangers known as "hymnodists" who created a unique, "raw" and powerful style of vocal music that broke all the (European) rules, and that was based on the way that American settlers actually sang their music after many years of living a tough frontier life that led them to forget the niceties of the Old World cities.
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