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Sounds of New Music

Various Artists
Sounds of New Music Sounds of New Music is a collection of 18 compositions from the 1920s to the mid-1950s representing attempts at a "new means of musical expression." Some use familiar instruments in new ways, while others experiment with new instruments; the formats of the compositions range from structured musical scores written for orchestra to electronically altered music using tape-recording devices. Composers include Edgard Varèse, Henry Cowell, and John Cage, whose "Dance" is played on a transformed Steinway piano that gives the music an almost primitive quality. Liner notes describing the new music feature a substantial article on Concrete Music.

Track Listing

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German Burlesque Orchestra
02:51
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102
Aleksandr Mossolov
03:03
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103
Julius Meytuss
02:30
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104
John Cage
02:42
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105
Edgard Varèse
00:56
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106
Henry Cowell
02:08
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107
Henry Cowell
02:39
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108
Vladimir Ussachevsky
01:14
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109
Otto Luening
02:48
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110
Halim El-Dabh
04:16
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201
Vladimir Ussachevsky
01:28
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202
Vladimir Ussachevsky
01:21
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203
Vladimir Ussachevsky
04:08
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204
Vladimir Ussachevsky
01:36
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205
Roger Marin and Fredric Ramsey, Jr.
00:24
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206
Roger Marin and Fredric Ramsey, Jr.
00:08
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207
Roger Marin and Fredric Ramsey, Jr.
04:32
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208
Henry Jacobs
09:32