Music examples for On the Threshold of Beauty

Short music examples for Kees Tazelaar's book 'On the Threshold of Beauty'.

Please note, these are all short examples. Clicking on the filename will trigger the download of a mp3-file.

PART 1
Lou Lichtveld	excerpt from soundtrack for Philips radio	1930
J. S. Bach	excerpt from Matthäus Passion (cond. Willem Mengelberg)	recorded in 1939 on Philips-Miller recorder
Eddy Christiani	excerpt from "Zonnig Madeira" (performed by Ensemble Dicky Doorenbos)	recorded in 1943 on stereo Philips-Miller recorder
	sounds from Schouten's Optical Siren	instrument from 1939, recording from 1956
Vittorio Monti	excerpt from Czárdás	recorded in 1955
Henk Badings	excerpt from Orestes	1953
Henk Badings	excerpt from Kaïn en Abel	1956
John van der Meulen	excerpt from soundtrack for The Conquered Planet	1953
Henk Badings	excerpt from soundtrack for Variations électroniques	1957
Kid Baltan	excerpt from "Song of the Second Moon"	1957
Kid Baltan	excerpt from "Night Train Blues"	1957
Tom Dissevelt	excerpt from "Syncopation"	1958
Tom Dissevelt	excerpt from "Vibration"	1959
Henk Badings	excerpt from Capriccio (Joke Vermeulen, violin)	1959
Ton de Leeuw	excerpt from Antiphonie (Danzi Wind Quintet)	1960
Pierre Boulez	excerpt from the premiere of Poésie pour pouvoir (cond. Hans Rosbaud and Pierre Boulez)	1958
Dick Raaijmakers	excerpt from Tweeklank (aka Contrasts)	1959
Dick Raaijmakers	excerpt from Pianoforte	1960
Dick Raaijmakers	excerpt from soundtrack for Achter de schermen	1960
Dick Raaijmakers	excerpt from soundtrack for Fuel for the Future	1960

PART 2
Benjamin Britten	excerpt from The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (cond. Malcolm Sargent)	1946
Edgard Varèse	excerpt from the premiere of Déserts (cond. Hermann Scherchen)	1954
Iannis Xenakis	excerpt from the premiere of Metastaseis (cond. Hans Rosbaud)	1955
Edgard Varèse	excerpt from Le poème électronique	1958
Iannis Xenakis	excerpt from Interlude sonore	1958

PART 3
Werner Meyer-Eppler	selection of sound examples for a lecture in Delft on June 18, 1953, during the International Acoustics Congress	1953
Pierre Schaeffer	excerpt from Etude aux chemins de fer	1948
Vladimir Ussachevsky	excerpt from A Piece for Tape Recorder	1955
Bruno Maderna	excerpt from Notturno	1956
Ton de Leeuw	excerpt from Job	1956
Karlheinz Stockhausen	excerpt from Gesang der Jünglinge	1956
Henk Badings	excerpt from Genese	1958
Ton de Leeuw	excerpt from Elektronische studie	1957–1958
Luciano Berio	excerpt from Thema (Omaggio a Joyce)	1958
Jan Masséus	excerpt from soundtrack for Paleontologie (aka Story in the Rocks)	1958
Jan Boerman	excerpt from Musique concrète	1959
Jan Boerman	excerpt from Alliage	1960
Rudolf Escher	excerpt from The Long Christmas Dinner	1960
Jaap Spek	excerpt from Impulsen	1960
Tom Dissevelt	excerpt from Twelve-tone Composition for the Skymasters	1960
Tom Dissevelt	excerpt from Intersection	1961
Dick Raaijmakers	excerpt from Vijf plastieken	1961
Jan Boerman	excerpt from Alchemie 1961	1961
Karel Appel	excerpt from Musique barbare	1961
Will Eisma	excerpt from BTH 3457 (based on Koenig's Bilthoven course)	1963
Tom Dissevelt	excerpt from Fantasy in Orbit ("Ignition")	1963–1964
Tom Dissevelt	excerpt from Fantasy in Orbit ("Gamelan")	1963–1964
Ton Bruynèl	excerpt from Studie	1959
Ton Bruynèl	excerpt from Réflexes	1961
Ton Bruynèl	excerpt from Résonance I	1962
Ton Bruynèl	excerpt from Collage résonance II	1963
Karlheinz Stockhausen	excerpt from Kontakte	1959–1960
Dick Raaijmakers	excerpt from Canon 1	1964
Ton Bruynèl	excerpt from Reliëf (Huub ten Hacken, organ)	1964
Jan Boerman	excerpt from De zee	1964–1965
Karel Goeyvaerts	excerpt from the premiere of Sonata for Two Pianos (Karel Goeyvaerts and Karlheinz Stockhausen, pianos)	1950–1951
Pierre Schaeffer / Pierre Henry	excerpt from Symphonie pour un homme seule	1949–1950
Gottfried Michael Koenig	excerpt from Klangfiguren I	1955
Gottfried Michael Koenig	excerpt from Terminus	1962
Gottfried Michael Koenig	excerpt from Projekt 1 Version 3	1967
Kees van Baaren	excerpt from Variazioni per orchestra (cond. Reinbert de Leeuw)	1959
Karlheinz Stockhausen	excerpt from Mikrophonie I	1965

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