Music Listening, Music Therapy, Phenomenology and Neuroscience

The Musical Timespace

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2 – States, Events and Transformations

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F

ig. 2.1 String glissandi of Metastasis (opposite page)

In the two-dimensional graph, the horizontal dimension representstime, divided in measures marked 309-314. The vertical dimensionrepresents pitch height; octave di

vision is indicated by the pitch

height levels E1, E2, E3, E4, E5 and E6, marked by inserted notesin the middle of the graph.

The gliding movement of each single instrument is drawn as a

straight line. At the beginning of measure 309, a 24-tone cluste

r

ranging from C#2 to C#4 is played by Cellos 3-4-5-6-7-8, DoubleB

asses 1-2-3-4-5-6, Violas 8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1, Second violins 12-11

and Cellos 1-2. The cluster is chro

matic except for the top interva

l

B

3-C#4. Departing from this cluster, the lowest group of cellos

perform a short glissando movement in measure 309, reaching achromatic cluster C#3-D3-D#3-E3

-F3. The other instruments

glide slowly towards a target tone which is the C#4 sustained byCello 2. This tone is reached by the instruments one by one, first byD

ouble Bass 1 in measure 310.

The exactly opposite process takes place in measure 313, where

Cellos 3-4-5-6-7-8 and Double Basses 1-2-3-4 begin, one by one, a

t

the same tone F2 and spread to a chromatic cluster ranging fromF

#2 to D#3.

In the higher register, sixteen violins playing a chromatic cluste

r

D

5-F6 at the beginning of measure 310 divide in two groups, eigh

t

gliding upwards, eight downwards.

In measures 312-314, a spreading from one tone to a high-register cluster is performed by 10 violins.

Fig.

2.2.

First model of Philips Pavilion