Mantra (Stockhausen)

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Mantra is a composition by the German avant garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, composed in 1970. Scored for two ring-modulated pianos (each player is also equipped with crotales and wood blocks), the piece represents a turning-point in Stockhausen's music, being the first instance of the technique the composer calls formula composition (though the technique was already foreshadowed in the withdrawn Formel some two decades previously). This technique involves the projection and expansion of a melody-formula, or complex of two or three melodies. In Mantra, the double-melody formula is stated at the outset of the piece.

[edit] See also

• Mantra

[edit] Sources

• Toop, Richard. 2005. Six Lectures from the Stockhausen Courses Kürten 2002. Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag. Lecture 3: "Mantra", pp. 75-98. ISBN 3-00-016-185-6

[edit] External links

• Mantra - Kontarsky recording (Stockhausen CD16)