Ionisation (Varèse)
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Ionisation (Varèse)
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Ionisation (1929–1931) is a musical composition by Edgard Varèse written for thirteen percussionists. It was among the first concert hall compositions for percussion ensemble alone, although Alexander Tcherepnin had composed an entire movement for percussion alone in his Symphony No. 1 from 1927. In the journal Tempo, percussionist Brian Holder writes, "The work presented the important notion that unpitched percussion could stand alone as a serious form of concert music – a relatively unexplored
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Musical composition by Edgard Varèse
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionisation_(Var%C3%A8se)
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2023-04-16T17:21:21Z
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