Variations on a natural theme for orchestra


Dick Higgins
Variations on a Natural Theme for Orchestra

Music scores and instructions for performance (twenty-eight variation)
New York,  Printed Editions, 1982
36 p.
33.5 x 28 cm.
black and brown

This work for standard orchestra is intended to be performed direct from the graphic notation. The orchestral parts are superimposed over a set of twenty-eight visual images made from photographs of a female nude, interpreted according to a set of very explicit instructions, to minimize any improvisatory tendency. D.H.







Twenty six mountains for viewing the sunset from

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Dick Higgins (Cambrigde, Inglaterra, 1938-1998).
Twenty-six Mountains for Viewing the sunset from

Music scores and instructions for performance
New York, Printed Editions, 1981
34 p.
28 x 21.5 cm.
p&b; offset; brochura.
Idioma: Inglês

ISBN:0914162-54-3

“This is a cycle of twenty-six one-minute pieces for dancers and chamber ensemble,
notated in an easy-to-play graphic notation.” D.H.

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Ten Ways of Looking at a Bird

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Dick Higgins (Richard C. Higgins), 1938-1998 [Cambrigde, Inglaterra]
Ten Ways of Looking at a Bird – for violin and harpsichord
Printed Editions
New York, EUA. 1981.

Encadernação: Grampo
Music scores with instruction for performance (ten movements)
[20 p], 28 x 21.5 cm.; cor; offset

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Esta composição para violino e cravo usa fotografias de um nu masculino como materiais gráficos subjacentes, todos interpretados dentro dos limites de uma série de conjuntos de até seis arremessos (uma gama) para cada um de seus dez movimentos

This composition for violin and harpsichord uses photographs of a male nude as graphic materials underlying staves, all interpreted within the limits of a series of sets of up-to-six pitches (a gamut) for each of its ten movements.

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Piano Sonata No. 2

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Dick Higgins
Piano Sonata No. 2 (Graphis # 192)
Edition: 750
12×8.5 in.
Printed Editions
Barrytown, NY
1983

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About this object
unbound in folder – 4 acetate overlays printed in different colors. visual score for musical performance.
Medium and Materials
diazo on acetate, offset

This musical work uses four overlays in different colors, each of which is placed over a different sheet of existing piano music. On the overlays are arrows directing eye and hand, separately or together, thus collaging the music that is read through them. 4 page folder, containing 4 silkscreened vinyl sheets in color, 9″ by 12″, 1982

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Piano Album

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Dick Higgins
Piano Album: Short Piano Pieces, 1962-1984
New York: Printed Editions, 1980
Music scores and instructions for performance
36 p.
28 x 21.5 cm.

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Table of Contents:
i – Sophokles I, page 1
ii – Gesti, page 2
iii – Long Arch, page 4
iv – Suggested by Small Swallows, page 6
v – Clouds, page 8
vi – Six Imitations for Piano and Pianist, page 10
vii – Sparks for Piano, page 11
viii – Touch #1 for Piano, page 14
ix – Sophokles II, page 17
x – Touch #2 for Piano, page 19
xi – Haydn in the Forest, page 20
xii – Litany Piano Pieces, pag 23
xiii – Piano Sonata #1, page 29

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“A beautifully produced collection of graphic,
verbal and notated scores…
With relevance to both music and literature,
Piano’s Album iconoclastic scores belong
in belles lettres and music libraries…” D.H.

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