Composition No. 173

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Composition No. 173
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Studio album by Anthony Braxton
Released 1996
Recorded December 19, 20 & 21, 1994
Genre Jazz
Length58:55
Label Black Saint
120166-2
Producer Flavio Bonandrini
Anthony Braxton chronology
Small Ensemble Music (Wesleyan) 1994
(1994)		Composition No. 173
(1996)		 Seven Standards 1995
(1995)

Composition No. 173 (subtitled For 4 Actors, 14 Instrumentalists Constructed Environment and Video Projections) is an album by American saxophonist and composer Anthony Braxton with orchestra and actors recorded in 1994 for the Italian Black Saint label. [1] [2] [3]

Anthony Braxton American musician, composer, and philosopher

Anthony Braxton is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist who is known in the genre of free jazz.

Black Saint and Soul Note are two affiliated Italian independent record labels. Since their conception in the 1970s, they have released albums from a variety of influential jazz musicians, particularly in the genre of free jazz.

Contents

Reception

The AllMusic review by "Blue" Gene Tyranny stated "This musically and textually complex composition examines movement-strategies that occur in normal life in various spaces ... The music is exciting and contrapuntally dense, and at other times mysteriously sustained. Maps of geography (sounds moving about the real and imaginary and video "virtual" lands) and musical graph strategies are treated as analogs. A thoughtful and innovative "multimedia" work". [4]

AllMusic online music database

AllMusic is an online music database. It catalogs more than 3 million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musical artists and bands. It launched in 1991, predating the World Wide Web.

"Blue" Gene Tyranny is an avant-garde composer and pianist.

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Track listing

All compositions by Anthony Braxton.

  1. "Composition No. 173":
    1. "Opening Music – Introduction" – 15:39
    2. Scene One – Interlude Duo"" – 16:16
    3. "Scene Two (A) – Interlude Ensemble" – 14:22
    4. "Scene Two (B)" – 5:12
    5. "Closing Music" – 7:26

Personnel

Actors

Musicians

Oboe musical instrument of the woodwind family

Oboes belong to the classification of double reed woodwind instruments. Oboes are usually made of wood, but there are also oboes made of synthetic materials. The most common oboe plays in the treble or soprano range. A soprano oboe measures roughly 65 cm long, with metal keys, a conical bore and a flared bell. Sound is produced by blowing into the reed at a sufficient air pressure, causing it to vibrate with the air column. The distinctive tone is versatile and has been described as "bright". When the word oboe is used alone, it is generally taken to mean the treble instrument rather than other instruments of the family, such as the bass oboe, the cor anglais, or oboe d'amore

Sopranino saxophone musical instrument

The sopranino saxophone is one of the smallest members of the saxophone family. It is tuned in the key of E♭, and sounds an octave higher than the alto saxophone. The sopranino saxophone has a sweet sound and although it is one of the least common of the saxophones in regular use today, it is still being produced by several of the major musical manufacturing companies. Due to their small size, sopraninos are not usually curved like other saxophones. Orsi, however, does make curved sopranino saxophones.

Bass clarinet musical instrument

The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B♭ clarinet, it is usually pitched in B♭, but it plays notes an octave below the soprano B♭ clarinet. Bass clarinets in other keys, notably C and A, also exist, but are very rare. Bass clarinets regularly perform in orchestras, wind ensembles/concert bands, occasionally in marching bands, and play an occasional solo role in contemporary music and jazz in particular.

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References

  1. ↑ Anthony Braxton discography accessed June 13, 2017
  2. ↑ Enciclopedia del Jazz: Anthony Braxton accessed June 13, 2017
  3. ↑ Jazzlists: Black Saint Records main series discography, accessed June 13, 2017
  4. 1 2 Tyranny, "Blue" Gene. Composition No. 173 – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved June 13, 2017.
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