aleatory

For many years, every Saturday a few other people and I would go to see Kabelac to study dodecaphony, serial technique, punctualism, aleatoricism, which was really tough post-graduate training indeed.

Often reassuringly tonal, A Foreign Field moves away at the beginning of its final movement, Et in Arcadia Ego, into the world of aleatoricism, where Arcadia is, in fact, ironically Hell, until at last resolution is achieved.

In the 1960s, Novak further extended his range of genres and compositional means; for a short time he employed elements of dodecaphony and aleatoricism in his compositions, first applying the twelve-tone technique as a thematic material in the middle section of his Capriccio for cello and small orchestra (1958), with the chamber piece Passer Catulli (1962) being considered one of the apices of this phase.

After Feliksas Bajoras' Symphony no.2, composed in 1970 and the oldest piece here, a revealing example of the fascinating aleatoricism of that period, we heard a simply stunning account of James MacMillan's Seven Last Words from the Cross.

Between these portals Norgard's resources reveal jazzy ragtime, a sunset chorus straight out of Delius (who loved Scandinavia) and a sophisticated use of the aleatoricism, which was once an easy option for many an insecure composer.