Varese illustrates his argument with compelling examples and matched comparisons drawn from all over the world and across different historical eras.
Varese offers an exceptional model for determining the importance and outcome of the independent variables.
The early songs considered here employ techniques of percussive rhythm, sound masses and non-serial atonality that Jolivet learned from
Varese. Open fifths, fourths and tritones, modality and whole-tone scales abound.
* Dipartimento di Biologia Molecolare, Sezione di Microbiologia, Universita di Siena, Siena, Italy; ([dagger]) Laboratorio di Microbiologia, Ospedale di Circolo e Universita dell'Insubria,
Varese, Italy; and ([double dagger]) Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biomediche, Universita di L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy
Frontiers: Jerry Goldsmith Sci-Fi Classics (
Varese)
The Ispra site of the Joint Research Centre of the Commission of the European Communities at
Varese in Italy was scarcely an advertisement for the aims of the organisation.
Sixty-three years ago, Edgard
Varese's Ionisation, now generally acknowledged as the first important work in the history of Western art music for an ensemble of percussion instruments alone, was heard.
MRI, set to music of Edgard
Varese, is performed on high bars and cargo nets suspended eight feet above the stage.
To illustrate this last possibility: Bernard, guided by his analytical method, identifies two [5][8]s in the flute line of measure 19 of Hyperprism, which it is not difficult to hear (The Music of Edgard
Varese, 198 and "Cracked Octaves," 281).