What’s in a name?

[Bryn]

How about "The Squirrel And The Ricketty Racketty Bridge", and any number of other Gavin Bryars titles, such as "Poggioli in Zaleski's Gazebo"

[Richard Barrett]

As you mention Takemitsu, my favourite has to be '..and then I knew t'was wind'

That's a line from Emily Dickinson, isn't it?

[MrGongGong]

How about "The Squirrel And The Ricketty Racketty Bridge", and any number of other Gavin Bryars titles, such as "Poggioli in Zaleski's Gazebo"

In case you didn't know already (i'm assuming you would though )

http://experimentalmusic.co.uk/wp/announcing-the-return-of-the-emc-rhythmic-anthology/

[ardcarp]

..and then there's the anthem by Derek Bourgeois, The Plum and Wasp is Boiling in the Kitchen. It sounds especially good when announced by a crusty old Dean.

[Richard Barrett]

(the "Ronseal" approach)

John Cage took a related approach quite often. 27′10.554″ for a percussionist is one I particularly like, not to mention all the "number pieces", and Xenakis's ST/4-1,080262 is surely catchier than "String Quartet no.1".

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

John Cage took a related approach quite often. 27′10.554″ for a percussionist is one I particularly like, not to mention all the "number pieces", and Xenakis's ST/4-1,080262 is surely catchier than "String Quartet no.1".

And James Saunders' #[unassigned] series of the first decade of this century, where each piece was give the title of the date of the (unique, unless recorded) performance of the work. (So, for example, #231106 is the name of the piece performed by Apartment House on the 23rd November, 2006.)


Rather a lovely set of works, I thought - I'm delighted that he's reworking the materials of some of them to create "fixed", "reperformable" pieces.

[ahinton]

Segerstam Symphonies have great titles

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...Leif_Segerstam

Indeed so - but then he's invented an entire new language (as far as I can tell)...

[Serial_Apologist]

John Cage took a related approach quite often. 27′10.554″ for a percussionist is one I particularly like, not to mention all the "number pieces", and Xenakis's ST/4-1,080262 is surely catchier than "String Quartet no.1".

Anthony Braxton's theme titles have often been nightmares for authors with limited font resources, too!

[Richard Barrett]

Anthony Braxton's theme titles have often been nightmares for authors with limited font resources, too!

It wasn't only hard to print the titles but completely impossible to say them! He did eventually give in to pressure and assigned a number to each piece... here http://tricentricfoundation.org/all-scores/ you can see some of the titles in his list of published scores. The oldest ones are linear diagrams, then you have some more realistic drawings and finally in the most recent titles little photocollages (often featuring trains for some strange reason).