Here I publish my 5-Track Sonogram Analyis of Gesang der Jünglinge im Feuerofen by Karlheinz Stockhausen. You can use it privately for free. If you use it in a professional environment, please cite my authorship.
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It is an analytic work made up of sonograms for each of the five tracks that were originally meant to be performed as such. My analysis can be read like a score – the symbols in the score offer the possibility to connect back to the sketch materials and dive deeper into each sound in the music.
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The extensive published sketch materials for this seminal work in the history of modern music – having an unearthy beauty to it in my view – are available from the Stockhausen Verlag:
Exerpt of Stockhausen Verlag catalog (link) | |
1955-56 | GESANG DER JÜNGLINGE (SONG OF THE YOUTHS) Electronic Music Facsimile Edition 2001 (special edition of all the sketches in colour) (308 bound paes, hard cover) |
Please listen to the music, if you are unfamiliar with this work:
Have fun!