Isorhythms, Hocket, abrupt changes in Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum | Harrison Birtwistle #2

Hello all, welcome to part 2 in this 4-part series on the compositional techniques of Harrison Birtwistle. This lecture looks deeper at recurring rhythms, extreme instrumental registers, hocket, and abrupt changes in texture and compositional technique with reference to the score of Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum (1987).
Chapters:
00:00 what happened last time (part 1)
00:21 Titles
00:26 Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum (again)
00:42 Recurring Rhythms
00:51 Extremity of Instrumental Registers
01:23 Abrupt Changes of Texture
01:47 Preponderance of Pitch
02:12 Large-Scale Repetition
02:36 Hocket
03:58 The Sense of a Struggle in the Music
05:35 Structuring Music: Pre-Composition
07:59 coming up next time (part 3)
08:22 outtakes
08:32 End Titles
Part 1: • Cantus Firmus, Hocket,...
Part 2 (this video)
Part 3: • Generating Pitch, Osti...
Part 4: • Time and Texture | Har...
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Recording date of this video: Saturday 28th May 2022

[@rosemaryjefford2254]

Really good video and content - as a composer, I find structure can become a bit of an obsession. Audio was fine on my computer.

[@ooinu]

I am not really sure what this is but it is definitely something good! 👍

[@AlannahMarie]

Haha thank you

[@Alex-xr5mb]

great video just very quiet audio ;)

[@AlannahMarie]

Thanks for letting me know, I'm working to fix the audio issue in all my videos from now on.