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	Pli selon pli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pli selon pli (Fold by fold) is a piece of classical music by the French composer Pierre Boulez.
		It has been pointed out that the fact that the piece moves from an early text to a late one means the work constitutes a sort of biography of Mallarmé, something emphasised by the fact that the last word of the piece (and the only clearly intelligible word of the last movement) is "mort" (death).
		The musical language of Pli selon pli is atonal, and there are usually just a few instruments playing at once with little doubling of parts (different instruments playing the same notes).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pli_selon_pli (567 words)

	Pli selon pli -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It is for solo (A female singer) soprano and (A musical organization consisting of a group of instrumentalists including string players) orchestra, and is based on the (A composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines) poems of (French symbolist poet noted for his free verse (1842-1898)) Stéphane Mallarmé.
		The musical language of Pli selon pli is (Click link for more info and facts about atonal) atonal, and there are usually just a few instruments playing at once with little doubling of parts (different instruments playing the same notes).
		This tendency is emphasised by the opening of the first movement - a loud sound which immediately becomes quiet; and the closing of the last - a rapid ((music) a gradual increase in loudness) crescendo.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/P/Pl/Pli_selon_pli.htm (574 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: Pli Selon Pli (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Conceived in epic terms but for chamber-scale resources, Boulez's Pli selon pli is a landmark of the mid/late 20th-century avant garde that remains as fresh (and elusive) as the day it was written--or so you might be tempted to say but for the fact that no such "day" exists.
		En effet, il composa Pli selon Pli en 1969 ; il s'agit d'une véritable symphonie en cinq mouvements.
		Stravinsky was to have said of "Pli Selon Pli" that it was "pretty monotonous and monotonously pretty," which is quite apt, I'm afraid.
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	classical music - andante - boulez: pli selon pli
		An ears-only comparison (scores of Pli selon pli are not widely available) of one such passage, the closing minutes of the first movement, between the new recording and Boulez's version from the early 1980s reveals that the instrumental commentary in the new Pli is more spare and distilled.
		The kernel of Pli selon pli is the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé, whose Surrealist approach is more aptly mirrored by Boulez's post-serialist musical language than by Ravel's post-Impressionist manner in his Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé.
		There is far less sense in the older performance of Pli selon pli as a unified musicial organism; the music is a series of violent outbursts, and even quieter passages have a tension that suggests ever-present danger and claustrophobia.
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	2021 - Boulez conducts Boulez: Pli selon Pli insights
		WF: The title Pli selon Pli is a reference to Mallarmé, yet it doesn't occur in the poems you selected.
		You've reworked all five parts of Pli selon Pli a number of times and then withdrawn the original versions or intermediate stages, insofar as they were published at all.
		If you look at the original versions of the five movements of Pli selon Pli, you'll observe a "crescendo" in the scoring from Don (at that stage for piano alone and voice), by way of ImprovisationI(for several instruments and voice), to Improvisation III and Tombeau (very large forces).
	www.deutschegrammophon.com /special/insighttext.htms?ID=boulez-pliselonpli&DETAIL=2 (1309 words)

	Amazon.com: Boulez: Pli selon Pli: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Pli Selon Pli is the first piece by Boulez that I heard back in the 70's.
		Pli Selon Pli is a work for large forces, though these are used sparingly and in a chamber music fashion.
		Pli Selon Pli is oe of the composer's most attractive works and a great place for anyone with adventurous ears to start learning about this seminal figure in 20th century music.
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		In these days of austerity, a new recording of Pli selon pli, rather than a reissue of its predecessor (CBS 72770, 1/70—nla), is a special, surprising luxury, which was probably only possible because of a project linking it to public performances in London and Paris in the autumn of 1981.
		Pli selon pli is ultimately ambiguous in its very shape and size, an extraordinarily ambitious attempt to bring into focus the spirit and substance of very diverse impulses and entities—the "cloud" and the "lava" of Mallarme's poetry.
		This new recording is still not a last word: but it is a superb technical achievement, and a fascinating document of how, in the early 1980s, Boulez sees his major project of the early 1960s.
	home.wanadoo.nl /jdpt/reviews/B/Boul-pli-blz.htm (327 words)

	Swans Commentary: PLI SELON PLI: A Modern Masterpiece, by Gregory Elich - elich008
		Pli Selon Pli, subtitled "a portrait of Mallarmé," is intended as an homage to the allusive and at times enigmatic poetry of 19th-century French Symbolist Stéphane Mallarmé;.
		Pli Selon Pli marked a turning point in the composer's musical development and contributed to the growing recognition that Boulez was perhaps the most important composer of his time.
		Pli Selon Pli is one of the major achievements in contemporary classical music.
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	Medialunchbox - Music : Boulez: Pli selon Pli (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Pli Selon Pli (Fold by Fold) is a portrait of Mallarmé, whose poems are set in fragmented fashion throughout the work's five movements, which Boulez rewrote and added to until they assumed final form in 1989.
		Pli Selon Pli (Fold by Fold) is one of the best, if not the very best, song-cycles to come out of the 20th Century.
		Boulez's longer works such as "Repons" and "Pli Selon Pli" begin with an interesting concept and sound, but run out of energy, a problem Webern avoided through brevity.
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	French Culture \| Music \| Contest: Boulez: Pli selon pli DG 471 344-2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He has won an impressive total of 23 Grammy awards since 1967, and is certainly among the most influential contemporary musicians, both as a composer and as a conductor.
		Pli selon Pli, originally written over the late '50s/early '60s, is an hommage to French poet Stéphane Mallarmé;.
		This composition for soprano and large orchestra is structured over five different and tense movements that demonstrate Boulez's new freedom and simplicity of style, alternating a frequently ornate vocal line with dense instrumental textures.
	www.frenchculture.org /music/events/02boulezplicontest.html (1438 words)

	Notes: Pli selon pli (portrait de Mallarme): No. 1, Don, pour soprano et orchestre. (book reviews)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Pli selon pli (portrait de Mallarme): No. 1, Don, pour soprano et orchestre.
		Pierre Boulez has won his reputation as one of the finest and most challenging post-World War II composers in the Western musical tradition on the basis of compositions such as Pli selon pli and cummings ist der Dichter.
		Don, the first of five movements comprising Pli selon pli, was premiered in 1962 and first published in 1967.
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	2021 - Boulez conducts Boulez: Pli selon Pli insights
		Now with five movements, Pli selon pli was heard for the first time in 1960, and it was linear, too, in its gradual accumulation: Don was a piano piece with soprano (not only singing the incipit but presaging the three Improvisations), followed by progressive enlargement.
		However, Boulez changed this plan for one of gradual diminution and accumulation, by writing a new orchestral Don and arranging the first Improvisation for larger forces on the scale of the third.
		The ear, with no access to the future, can stilland constantlybe taken by surprise, seduced by the next flap of the swan's wing, the next shiver of the lace curtain, the next surge of foam between those ultimate points of birth and death.
	www.deutschegrammophon.com /special/insighttext.htms?ID=boulez-pliselonpli&DETAIL=1 (931 words)

	INKPOT#92 CLASSICAL MUSIC FEATURE: PIERRE BOULEZ - An Inktroduction
		It is an exotically scored work, mixing the sound worlds of a soprano, xylophone, percussion, alto-flute and guitar, and as such has an almost pan-global feel to it, with African and European textures pre-eminent.
		With the composition of Pli selon pli (1957-62), Boulez's work seems to reach the summit of his previous achievements.
		Pli is an hypnotically intense work, that at moments reaches stasis.
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	Pierre Boulez - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		These writings have mostly been republished under the titles "Notes of an Apprenticeship", "Orientations: Collected Writings", and "Boulez on Music Today", as well as within reprints of the journal of the Darmstadt composers of the time "die Reihe".
		His works include a number of instrumental and vocal works including Le marteau sans maître for ensemble and voice, Pli selon pli for orchestra and voice and Rituel: In Memoriam Bruno Maderna for orchestra divided into eight groups.
		Following the lead of figures such as Pierre Schaeffer and Edgar Varèse, he also made pioneering advances in classical electronic music and computer music.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pierre_Boulez (747 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts reviews \| Boulez: Pli Selon Pli; Le Visage Nuptial; Le Soleil des Eaux; Figures - Doubles - ...
		Warner's budget-priced Apex label makes its contribution to the birthday offerings with a survey of Boulez's orchestral works, recordings he made in the 1980s for the French-based Erato label.
		Though he has since re-recorded the portrait of Mallarmé, Pli Selon Pli, Boulez has not yet revisited either of the early cantatas, Le Visage Nuptial and Le Soleil des Eaux, based like Le Marteau, on Char's poetry, while this is his only recording of the 1960s study in orchestral voicing Figures - Doubles - Prismes.
		To have these works in such definitive performances for less than £10 is a bargain.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/reviews/story/0,11712,1429709,00.html (491 words)

	Pierre Boulez - Works For Voice And Orchestra - CompositionToday.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Boulez’s most ambitious vocal work, Pli selon pli (“Fold by Fold”), setting poems by Mallarmé, was written in 1957—62, with the inevitable later revisions.
		The three central movements comprise a set of “improvisations” in which Mallarmé’s recondite poems are gradually dismantled into their constituent images, and are flanked by two outer movements for much larger ensemble in which the voice is only fleetingly present.
		Pli Selon Pli; Le Visage Nuptial; Le Soleil des Eaux; Figures, Doubles, Prismes; BBC Symphony Orchestra; Ensemble Intercontemporain; Boulez; Bryn-Julson; Laurence (Erato 2CDs).
	www.compositiontoday.com /articles/boulez_voice.asp (279 words)

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		Of particular interest from a theoretical perspective was the presentation of Norwegian young scholar Erling Gulbrandsen's recent doctoral dissertation on Boulez's Pli selon* Pli*.
		Reinhard Oehlschlagel provided a much more positive description of the present situation in which the contemporary musical institutions (sometimes, according to his definition, consisting of only two persons) contribute to a pluralistic musical discourse.
		Based on archive studies, done at the Paul Sacher Stiftung (Basel), of the sketches and of a work that Boulez had rejected, the author traces the work's pitch structures.
	www.societymusictheory.org /mto/issues/mto.96.2.6/mto.96.2.6.broman.rev (659 words)

	American Composers Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In a suburb of St. Louis in the 60s and 70s I was drawn to, (and attracted) music, literature and art that I did not understand--with friends, from record stores, libraries and in spite of radio.
		I got a score of "Pli Selon Pli" to try to disentangle while listening, helped start a peace club at school, leaned about AACM from and collaborated with Zorn at Webster College; inspired by Partch invented a few instruments; and later learned at Urbana that these inclinations were connected.
		When Kenneth Gaburo was in residence at the U of I in the early 80s, I was part of the mutating chair in a performance of Poesies, and In 1994 PWE studied and toured with Gaburo's Maledetto--New College, Florida, American Society for Cybenetics meeting in Philadelphia, Phill Niblock's Experimental Intermedia in Manhattan.
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	BOULEZ Pli selon pli [PQ]: Classical CD Reviews- Oct 2002 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Paul Griffiths promises us in his sleeve notes to this, Boulez’s third recording of Pli selon pli, that the disc contains ‘The ultimate realization [sic]’, the ‘definitive shape’ of his portrait of Stephane Mallarmé.
		Paradoxically, the two previous recordings of Pli selon pli, using smaller forces, were made with the BBC Symphony Orchestra; this one is played by the Ensemble Intercontemporain, ‘his ideal interpreters’, DG trumpets, who when I saw them perform the work at the Royal Festival Hall a couple of years ago, filled the stage.
		The ensemble certainly displays greater familiarity with the music and more security with its extreme rhythmic virtuosity but even the relatively minor increase in the density of texture makes what is already formidably complex music more bewildering to listen to.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2002/Oct02/Boulex_pli.htm (645 words)

	Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Le Marteau sans maître (The Hammer Without a Master, 1954) for voice and six instruments has florid decorative textures that flow into one another, with voice and instruments rising and falling with the utmost apparent spontaneity.
		Boulez' innovativeness was demonstrated in Pli selon pli (Fold According to Fold; first performed 1960), in which performers must orient themselves by maintaining a constant awareness of the structure of the work.
		In his Piano Sonata No. 3, as in Pli selon pli, he introduced elements of aleatory (chance) music.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/print_toc?tocId=9015923 (579 words)

	U of M: School of Music: Valdine Anderson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Her regular concert appearances in the UK have included a performance of Boulez Pli selon pli with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at the Edinburgh Festival in 1999 and Mahler Symphony No 4 with the same orchestra which has now been released on CD by BBC Worldwide.
		In celebration of Pierre Boulez’s 75th birthday she toured Europe with the Ensemble Intercontemporain and Boulez himself in performances of Pli selon pli.
		Highlights have included a concert in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, a tour with the Nash Ensemble, a concert with Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood, concerts with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie and débuts with the BBC Symphony, New York Philharmonic and London Symphony Orchestras.
	www.umanitoba.ca /schools/music/faculty/anderson.html (638 words)

	Democrat and Chronicle -- Entertainment -- Rochester, NY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Chronologically speaking, it's a bit of a stretch to place French composer Pierre Boulez's work for soprano and orchestra in the No. 2 spot on our list.
		The first version of what would become Pli Selon Pli was written in 1957, but it remained a work in progress, going through numerous permutations until it reached its final form in 1989.
		Then again, everything about Pli Selon Pli is really timeless.
	www.democratandchronicle.com /entertainment/arts/classical/ent_1604.shtml (1891 words)

	Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - Boulez
		He led the opening concert of the Cité de la musique, conducting works of Mahler, Rameau and Strawinsky.
		Pli selon pli for Soprano & Orchestra; Music for Strings/Sony Classical "Pierre Boulez Edition" SK68335
		Pli selon pli; Figures, Doubles, Prismes, Le Visage nuptial/Apex 2564-62083-2
	www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/boulez.html (1079 words)

	Pierre Boulez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Many of his pieces remain in incomplete form or, in the case of his Pli selon pli, have undergone numerous revisions.
		Improvisation sur Mallarme I from Pli selon pli
		Chamber music, including Le marteau sans mâitre (The Hammer without a Master, 1954), Pli selon pli (Fold upon fold, 1962, which includes 3 Improvisations on Mallarmé), Eclat/Multiples (1965–70), Rituel in memoriam Maderna (1974–75)
	www.wwnorton.com /enjoy/shorter/composers/boulez.htm (583 words)

	Boulez - Figures, Doubles, Prismes; Pli selon pli; Le Visage nuptial Music at Dono.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Boulez - Figures, Doubles, Prismes; Pli selon pli; Le Visage nuptial Music at Dono.co.uk
		Dono.co.uk » Music » Boulez - Figures, Doubles, Prismes; Pli selon pli; Le Visage nuptial
		Boulez - Figures, Doubles, Prismes; Pli selon pli; Le Visage nuptial by: Pierre Boulez, Elisabeth Laurence, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, BBC Singers
	www.dono.co.uk /music/detail/B0007DAXXO (79 words)

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