excellent percussion music... I don´t understand the notes... but the music is full of emotions... differencences, expressions... great percussionist! Respect!
No, the full score is a whole line with 3 lines of boxes. One column is one beat, the 3 rows show high-middle-low notes. And the numbers show how many notes should you play when arriving to that point.
According to Eberhard Blum's 'Notes on Morton Feldman’s “The King of Denmark”': "Feldman chose the title of his work with great care: During the German occupation of Denmark in the Second World War, the Danish King wore the yellow Star of David on his coat, as Danish Jews were forced to do by the Nazis. It was this above all that Feldman interpreted as “silent resistance”. In this way, his work “The King of Denmark” acquires a political dimension never articulated as clearly in any of his other works." Yet, this course of events has been called a legend, a myth, folklore or propaganda -- www.nybooks.com/articles/1990/03/29/the-legend-of-king-christian-an-exchange/
Feldman was Jewish, and this is an hommage to King Christian X of Denmark, who took a stance against anti-semitism (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_X_of_Denmark#:~:text=The%20myth%20may%20originate%20from,have%20to%20wear%20such%20stars.)
"I actually remember writing The King - on the beach on the south shore of Long Island and I wrote it in a few hours, just sitting comfortably on the beach. I wrote the whole piece on the beach. And I can actually conjure up the memory of doing it - that kind of muffled sound of kids in the distance and transistor radios and drifts of conversation from other pockets of inhabitants on blankets, and I remember that it did come into the piece. By that I mean these kinds of wisps. I was very impressed with the wisp, that things don't last, and that became an image of the piece: what was happening around me. To fortify that, I got the idea of using the fingers and the arms and doing away with all mallets, where sounds are only fleetingly there and disappear and don't last very long. Everybody always asks me about the title, The King of Denmark, and the title really came after the piece. There was something about the wistfulness of things not lasting, of impermanence, and of being absolutely quiet. How it lead to the metaphor, The King of Denmark, which is on a much more serious level, I don't know. The King of Denmark, if one will remember, went out into the streets of Copenhagen wearing the star of Israel that the Jews had to wear around their arm and it was a silent protest. He just walked around and didn't say anything. How I made the leap from the beach to this other thing I don't know, but there was a very strong connection in my mind at that time."
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The way it is recorded makes you listen to it as an electronic piece. Great recording!
excellent percussion music... I don´t understand the notes... but the music is full of emotions... differencences, expressions... great percussionist! Respect!
Amazing resource. So grateful that you have posted this!
Relaxing
This is what it sounds like when I'm browsing my sample drum packs.
lmao
Hi Mr. Tripp.
No score visible in the Colin Frank video. I assume it is out of sight?
Am I understanding correctly that each "line" is going at its own steady tempo?
No, the full score is a whole line with 3 lines of boxes. One column is one beat, the 3 rows show high-middle-low notes. And the numbers show how many notes should you play when arriving to that point.
So..... Why did he name this piece like this? Would someone explain to me?
According to Eberhard Blum's 'Notes on Morton Feldman’s “The King of Denmark”': "Feldman chose the title of his work with great care: During the German occupation of
Denmark in the Second World War, the Danish King wore the yellow Star of David on his coat, as Danish Jews were forced to do by the Nazis. It was this above all that Feldman interpreted as “silent resistance”. In this way, his work “The King of Denmark” acquires a political dimension never articulated as clearly in any of his other works."
Yet, this course of events has been called a legend, a myth, folklore or propaganda --
www.nybooks.com/articles/1990/03/29/the-legend-of-king-christian-an-exchange/
This is also mentionned in Alvin Lucier's Music 109
Feldman was Jewish, and this is an hommage to King Christian X of Denmark, who took a stance against anti-semitism (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_X_of_Denmark#:~:text=The%20myth%20may%20originate%20from,have%20to%20wear%20such%20stars.)
"I actually remember writing The King - on the beach on the south shore of Long Island and I wrote it in a few hours, just sitting comfortably on the beach. I wrote the whole piece on the beach. And I can actually conjure up the memory of doing it - that kind of muffled sound of kids in the distance and transistor radios and drifts of conversation from other pockets of inhabitants on blankets, and I remember that it did come into the piece. By that I mean these kinds of wisps. I was very impressed with the wisp, that things don't last, and that became an image of the piece: what was happening around me. To fortify that, I got the idea of using the fingers and the arms and doing away with all mallets, where sounds are only fleetingly there and disappear and don't last very long. Everybody always asks me about the title, The King of Denmark, and the title really came after the piece. There was something about the wistfulness of things not lasting, of impermanence, and of being absolutely quiet. How it lead to the metaphor, The King of Denmark, which is on a much more serious level, I don't know. The King of Denmark, if one will remember, went out into the streets of Copenhagen wearing the star of Israel that the Jews had to wear around their arm and it was a silent protest. He just walked around and didn't say anything. How I made the leap from the beach to this other thing I don't know, but there was a very strong connection in my mind at that time."
Hi Doctor Evans！
I don't get it.
*¿Qué el fuck?* is this score