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	Classical Net - Composers - Scelsi
		Scelsi's early music is based in the music of the time: he studied with a pupil of Alban Berg in Vienna, as well as with a follower of Scriabin in Switzerland.
		Scelsi's polyphonic style is undoubtedly drawn in part from the more open style of the early Renaissance: Ockeghem and Busnois; and one is reminded of Scelsi's early "medieval education," his position as a classics scholar.
		Scelsi's love of polyphony and counterpoint is already apparent from his early compositional work, such as the second movement of the first quartet – and his later polyphony continues to seek a compactness of expression, though largely abandoning counterpoint interpreted as such.
	www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/acc/scelsi.html (4123 words)

	Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise: Giacinto Scelsi
		Scelsi was not the first to hit on this concept: Elliott Carter had ventured it in his “Eight Études and a Fantasy,” in 1950.
		After Scelsi’s death, Tosatti published an article with the incendiary title “Giacinto Scelsi C’Est Moi,” asserting not only that he was the true author of the music but that it was all rubbish.
		Scelsi’s quartets, relatively brief in span, don’t pose the same challenge of endurance, but they are taxing nevertheless, taking a toll on the bowing arm and on the emotions.
	www.therestisnoise.com /2005/11/giacinto_scelsi.html (1395 words)

	Giacinto Scelsi Profile
		Scelsi was mainly a self-taught composer, but received some instruction from Giacinto Sallustio in Rome and Egon Koehler in Geneva who acquainted him with Scriabin's work.
		For Scelsi sound was cosmic energy and three-dimensional: "The sound is round like a sphere, yet when one hears it, it seems to have only two dimensions: register and duration-of the third [dimension] we know that it exists, but it escapes us in some way.
		Aitsi, Scelsi's last work for amplified piano solo of 1974, in which the sustained pitches are distorted, incidentally originated due to a malfunction of his tape recorder.
	www.moderecords.com /profiles/giacintoscelsi.html (947 words)

	Giacinto Scelsi
		Festival Scelsi is promoted by Foundation in collaboration with music institutions and associations: forty concerts, 2 workshops, an exhibition and many others events from october 2005 to may 2006.
		Un profilo di Giacinto Scelsi is the title of the concert dedicated to the Italian composer, performed by Quartetto di Torino conducted by Maurizio Franco.
		Giacinto Scelsi (1905 - 1988) is the protagonist of the concert at Aula Magna.
	www.amic.it /english/scelsi.htm (957 words)

	Incantations: The Art of Song of Giacinto Scelsi
		The West German discovery of Scelsi in the 1980s was an event of Messianic character that was welcomed in a choice of vocabulary that was correspondingly devoid of inhibitions.
		In other words, the music is not articulated by constant changes of pitch, but in the multifarious changes of articulation itself, and the smallest possible fluctuations of pitch, as for example by often using a mute ('usare sordina variabile').
		Hô I is the compositional expression of the origin of linguistic sounds and sound connections (an early cantata by Scelsi in fact bears the title The birth of the word).
	www.newalbion.com /NA129 (1136 words)

	Scelsi: Piano Works (review)
		Scelsi was a virtuoso pianist, and even his most experimental compositions in this genre show a marked pianistic conception.
		Though Halbreich repeats his comparison between Scelsi and Bruckner when discussing this piece in the CD notes, it is particularly here that the limits of this comparison are seen.
		Scelsi returns more extremely to ostinato-based movements, as well as simply slow repeated chords; it took me several hearings to appreciate this suite, and it continues to occupy something of a singular position -- perhaps a rock on which Scelsi's further explorations during the 50s are levered.
	www.medieval.org /music/modern/scelsi/piano.html (1234 words)

	Giacinto Scelsi MP3 Downloads - Giacinto Scelsi Music Downloads - Giacinto Scelsi Music Videos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In order to listen to the work of Giancinto Scelsi, to really hear it, one has to imagine music in a different order that is usually prescient.
		This collection by the vocal group Giacinto Scelsi formed in Reims, France, is a precursor to many of the more obscure collections of music released by both well-known and nearly anonymous vocal...
		Scelsi wrote these piano suites, number nine "Ttai" in 1953 and number ten "Ka" in 1954.
	www.mp3.com /giacinto-scelsi/artists/2541/discography.html (1474 words)

	Giacinto Scelsi : Voxnova - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		This collection by the vocal group Giacinto Scelsi formed in Reims, France, is a precursor to many of the more obscure collections of music released by both well-known and nearly anonymous vocal ensembles during recent years.
		Scelsi is not interested in boundaries; his group, comprised of three men and three women, here take on liturgical music in monody from the Byzantine Rite circa 700 A.D., and it is so close to its Far Eastern counterparts as to be almost frightening.
		Truly 20th century, but at once completely out of time, Scelsi composed vocal music that underscored his belief that the ritual echo itself was a key to the transformation of human consciousness (much like the Hindus and the Buddhists).
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,1044362,00.html (538 words)

	The Musical Times: Giacinto Scelsi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Donna was an excellent cellist and made no secret, to Scelsi’s amazement, that one of the job’s attractions was for her the fact that the composer was a real Count.
		Scelsi, sincerely amused by the statement (he had a soft spot for foreign ladies), gave all of us permission to address him as Count Scelsi; he did not like to be called Maestro.
		An upset Scelsi, though, moved rapidly to front stage and in a stentorian yet agitated tone of voice declared that the instrumentalists’ interpretation did not correspond to his wishes; therefore he could not acknowledge the audience’s applause.
	www.musicaltimes.co.uk /archive/0102/scelsi.html (2841 words)

	Browse by Artist: SCELSI, GIACINTO
		Scelsi characterized 'Ttai' as 'a succession of episodes alternately expressing Time and Man, as symbolized by cathedrals or monasteries, with the sacred sound of Om'.
		Emphasizing the suite's calm, meditative and mysterious character, Scelsi wondered if this piece should be played at concerts at all, and advised in its preface: 'This suite should be listened to and played with the greatest inner calm.
		This CD of Giacinto Scelsi's Trilogia is the second recording of the complete work, the first being the acclaimed recording made by Frances-Marie Uitti and the composer himself.
	www.forcedexposure.com /artists/scelsi.giacinto.html (1338 words)

	Giacinto Scelsi - CompositionToday.com
		Although Scelsi never received any formal musical training, as a young man he frequented the house of Respighi in Rome, became an enthusiast for the Futurist music of Luigi Russolo, and later studied briefly in Vienna with a pupil of Schoenberg, writing the first 12-note music to be composed by an Italian.
		During his recovery, Scelsi fell into the habit of calming his mind by playing single notes over and over on the piano, a form of musical auto-therapy which was, improbably, to form the basis of his mature compositional style.
		Scelsi stopped composing around 1975, but enjoyed belated fame as musicians from all over the world discovered his work.
	www.compositiontoday.com /articles/scelsi.asp (482 words)

	GIACINTO SCELSI discography
		Giacinto Scelsi is one of the most extraordinary composers who have ever lived.
		Giacinto Scelsi had his first experience of the artistic, musical and literary world in the Twenties during his frequent journeys abroad, making friends who introduced him to the international cultural movements of the period.
		Giacinto Scelsi died at Rome on 18 August 1988.
	www.soundohm.com /scelsi.htm (1985 words)

	Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - Scelsi
		Scelsi's early music is based in the music of the time: he studied with a pupil of Alban Berg in Vienna, as well as with a follower of Alexander Scriabin in Switzerland.
		Ygghur forms the conclusion of one of Scelsi's most personal works, the Trilogia "The Three Ages of Man," and the Elegy is equally personal – one of Scelsi's most powerful and most melancholy works.
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	www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/scelsi.html (4130 words)

	Kya - Giacinto Scelsi - Music Reviews
		If this sounds austere, it is. To dedicate one's life's work to find ways of combining essences to create via the input of both individual musicians and listeners, a music that would transmit the cosmos for the purpose of transformation, is no mean task.
		His long tonal investigations where structure was dependent on things like the breath of the musician and the tone with which he played his instrument were part and parcel the building blocks to a sonic and spiritual ascendancy that he was able to tap into seemingly at will.
		We, in being active spiritual participants in a musical language of such color and vibrational metaphor, are also changed perceptually to hear music not so much as one language of expression but many, culled together from a single place the essence of one vibration upon another to create a single sound.
	www.mp3.com /albums/441810/reviews.html (728 words)

	Giacinto Scelsi - Volume 2: The Orchestral Works 1
		Referring to Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988) as Italy's Charles Ives is both on and off the mark.
		Scelsi's practice of Buddhist meditation and Yoga was integral to the attentiveness that attuned him to microtonal consequences of individual sounds.
		Since, as Harry Halbreich pointed out, the twentieth century is now "unthinkable without Scelsi", it's perhaps surprising that his orchestral works have until now only been recorded once in their entirety, in 1988, by the chorus and orchestra of Polish Radio and TV in Krakow conducted by Jürg Wyttenbach.
	www.moderecords.com /catalog/095scelsi.html (2044 words)

	Scelsi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Scelsi continues to be a modern composer of intense interest to me.
		Partly this is because he uses ideas from other stimulating music: Medieval, Indian, etc. Mostly, however, it is because he was able to achieve a coherent and compelling microtonal fusion technique.
		Finally, here are some old essays on Scelsi, which might still prove helpful to someone trying to discover his music.
	www.medieval.org /music/modern/scelsi.html (198 words)

	Giacinto Scelsi - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		Giacinto Scelsi's music was largely unknown throughout most of his life, as he refused interviews, rarely sought out performances, and would not even have his photograph taken, preferring instead to be represented by the symbol of a horizontal line placed under a circle.
		After his revelation, Scelsi began composing works which involved very static harmony with surface fluctuations of timbre and microtonal inflection.
		Many of his pieces were worked out in improvisation and subsequently written down, but dating his compositions has been difficult as he re-dated manuscripts deliberately to confuse musicologists.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,489784,00.html (333 words)

	Amazon.ca: Giacinto Scelsi: 5 String Quartets; String Trio; Khoom: Music: Giacinto Scelsi,Arditti String Quartet,Frank ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The first time I heard of Giancinto Scelsi, he was mentioned as as being famous for writing pieces that used only one note.
		The further restrictions on development-in-time are compensated for with a wealth of new textures and overtones.
		Over twenty years later, Scelsi's 5th quartet (his final compositon) weaves the tiny internal vacillations into a surging mesh.
	www.amazon.ca /Giacinto-Scelsi-String-Quartets-Khoom/dp/B00005V52N (819 words)

	Amazon.ca: Chamber Music: Music: Giacinto Scelsi,Carin Levine,Edith Salmen,Kristi Becker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This disc is almost exclusively devoted to works from Giacinto Scelsi's middle period, the years that lead up to his breakthrough Quattro pezzi for orchestra.
		This is an interesting piece, but it's a shame that the excellent performers here did not choose to make their own recording of it in better sound: the tape quality here makes listening something of a trial.
		The compositions are all from the '50s when Scelsi was searching and begining to arrive at his greatness.
	www.amazon.ca /Chamber-Music-Giacinto-Scelsi/dp/B00000AENR (1108 words)

	Giacinto Scelsi - AOL Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Biography of Giacinto Scelsi in ClassicalNet · CompositionToday - Giacinto Scelsi Article · Classical Net - Composers - Scelsi...
		Most recently, I wrote some articles on Scelsi for the San Francisco Symphony,...
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	Giacinto Scelsi - Classical music composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Three pieces for Trombone Solo (1956) By Giacinto Scelsi.
		Toshio Hosokawa, Rene Leibowitz, Gyorgy Ligeti, Giacinto Scelsi, Arnold Schoenberg, Cornelius Schwehr, Anton Webern, Iannis Xenakis
		Giacinto Scelsi: Chamber Works for Flute & Piano
	www.classical-composers.org /comp/scelsi (784 words)

	Amazon.com: Giacinto Scelsi: In Nomine Lucis: Music: David Simpson,Giacinto Scelsi,John Patrick Thomas,Ensemble ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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		This collection offerss a particularly well-rounded representation of Scelsi's pieces for small ensembles or solo instruments.
		These pieces may remind new listeners of Ligeti, though with the emphasis on the characteristics of a single sound rather than on tonal intervals; This focus, which holds for all of Scelsi's mature work, is particularly evident in these sparsely lovely pieces.
	www.amazon.com /Giacinto-Scelsi-Nomine-David-Simpson/dp/B0000067T7 (593 words)

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