Karlheinz Stockhausen - Montags-Gruss / Eva-Gruss (Mondays Greeting / Eva's Greeting), Nr. 55, from Montag aus Licht (1986/88) First Section of the opera Montag aus Licht (Monday from Light) Scored for multiple basset horns and electronic keyboard instruments (performed either with live basset horn and tape, or only tape) Basset Horn parts recorded by Suzanne Stephens Montags Gruss had its birth in the solo instrumental work Xi (from the Greek letter, meaning "unknown quantity"). Designed for instruments with the ability to play "bent" notes microtonally (ruling out the traditional acoustic piano, vibraphone, accordion, etc...), one of the challenges of Xi is to develop techniques for keyed wind and brass instruments to play "in between" adjacent notes of the chromatic scale, with not one, but several steps (up to 12!) from note to note. This is typically done with non-traditional key fingerings as well as embouchure techniques. The basset-horn and flute-specific scores for Xi include the techniques and fingerings developed by Suzanne Stephens and Kathinka Pasveer to play the micro-intervals necessary for those 2 instruments. From a purely melodic standpoint, Montags Gruss is the basset-horn version of Xi slowed down from 8.5 minutes to 34 minutes, with 3 additional tempo-reduced layers of the same melody transposed down in pitch 3 times. Because the tempos are reduced, the number of micro-steps is increased in some places from 7 to 12 (which of course meant that new fingerings had to be discovered for the additional micro-tones). In a way, the 3 additional layers create a 4-part harmonized Xi chord melody, but there are 3 important factors which make the work more interesting on a smaller time-scale as well. NOTE: The 'measures' mentioned in the video chapters correspond to the numbers in circles underneath the top basset horn stave. Intro – 0:00 Measure 1 – 0:07 Measure 2 – 0:17 Measure 3 – 0:26 Measure 4 – 0:35 Measure 5 – 0:45 Measure 6 - 1:04 Measure 7 – 1:14 Measure 8 – 1:43 Measure 9 – 2:06 Measure 10 – 3:18 Measure 11 – 3:33 Measure 12 – 4:05 Measure 13 – 4:19 Measure 14 – 4:53 Measure 15 – 5:40 Measure 16 – 6:28 Measure 17 – 7:53 Measure 18 – 8:10 Measure 19 – 9:39 Measure 20 – 12:49 Measure 21 – 13:13 Measure 22 – 14:24 Measure 23 – 14:36 Measure 24 – 15:11 Measure 25 – 15:51 Measure 26 – 16:04 Measure 27 – 16:16 Measure 28 – 16:52 Measure 29 – 17:04 Measure 30 – 17:15 Measure 31 – 17:27 Measure 32 – 17:39 Measure 33 – 17:51 Measure 34 – 18:03 Measure 35 – 18:27 Measure 36 – 18:33 Measure 37 – 18:51 Measure 38 – 18:57 Measure 39 – 19:09 Measure 40 – 19:15 Measure 41 – 19:21 Measure 42 – 19:27 Measure 43 – 19:39 Measure 44 – 20:03 Measure 45 – 20:09 Measure 46 – 20:44 Measure 47 – 20:50 Measure 48 – 20:56 Measure 49 – 21:02 Measure 50 – 21:14 Measure 51 – 21:38 Measure 52 – 21:44 Measure 53 – 22:01 Measure 54 – 22:08 Measure 55 – 22:13 Measure 56 – 22:25 Measure 57 – 22:37 Measure 58 – 22:43 Measure 59 – 22:49 Measure 60 – 23:07 Measure 61 – 22:13 Measure 62 – 23:28 Measure 63 – 24:00 Measure 64 – 24:16 Measure 65 - 24:31 Measure 66 – 25:20 Measure 67 – 25:35 Measure 68 – 25:51 Measure 69 – 26:07 Measure 70 – 26:31 Measure 71 – 27:11 Measure 72 – 27:43 Measure 73 – 27:52 Measure 74 – 28:14 Measure 75 – 28:26 Measure 76 – 28:46 Measure 77 – 22:02 Measure 78 – 22:26 Measure 79 – 22:49 Measure 80 – 30:21 Measure 81 – 31:17 Measure 82 – 32:21 Measure 83 – 32:44 Measure 84 – 32:54 Closing Silence – 33:43 [thats a LOT of timestamps...] Join the Score Video Creator Discord Server: https://discord.gg/QRbwTRs PATREON - Pay a small monthly fee and gain access to my online score library, full of rare scores that I have used in videos - https://www.patreon.com/ryanpower PAYPAL - Donations of any amount welcome! - https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/officialryan3?country.x=GB&locale.x=en_GB ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQRuWKiwhZ0

Iannis Xenakis - Akanthos, for soprano and 8 instruments (1977) ST-X Ensemble Conductor - Charles Zachary Bornstein Soprano - Susan May Join the Score Video Creator Discord Server: https://discord.gg/QRbwTRs PATREON - Pay a small monthly fee and gain access to my online score library, full of rare scores that I have used in videos - https://www.patreon.com/ryanpower PAYPAL - Donations of any amount welcome! - https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/officialryan3?country.x=GB&locale.x=en_GB ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_DHBALbSuk