Matthew Hindson (gmail) wrote:
Can anyone recommend some works or significant parts of works that are
based on one or two chords only?
So far I have:
Monteverdi: Prelude to L'Orfeo (D major)
Wagner: Prelude to Das Rheingold (Eb major)
Ross Edwards: Maninya V (two chords)
Stockhausen: Stimmung (1 chord)
I'm sure there are many others I'm missing: any suggestions?
I teach this thing quite a bit. The two examples that are always cool
are "Peace Piece", Bill Evans long, aborted intro to Bernstein's "Some
other time" (Surprised that Chuck didn't mention this one) and the
Chopin Berceuse Op 57.
You could also argue that most 11C - 16C pieces are one "chord" but
that may be pushing the boundary. There is also examples of the New
Complexity composers only using one chord or tonality, but their
definition may be rather extended as to what a chord or tonality is.
B
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