TemA
by Helmut Lachenmann
Performance Score - Sheet Music

Trio (fl,Mez,vc)

SKU: BR.BG-737

Composed by Helmut Lachenmann. Edition Gerig.

World premiere: Stuttgart, February 19, 1969

Music post-1945. Performance score. Breitkopf and Haertel #BG 737. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.BG-737).

ISBN 9790004140116. 12 x 9 inches.

world premiere Stuttgart, February 19, 1969


temA was written in the summer of 1968. In spite of Ligeti's Aventures it may be considered one of the first compositions in which the breathing plays a role as an accoustically transmitted energy process (Holliger, Globokar, Kagel, Schnebel and Stockhausen in Hymnen have already worked on this phenomenon independently of each other and from different points of view). Moreover, temA marks for me the first step into that musique concrete instrumentale in which the mechanical conditions of the sound production are incorporated into the composition. This characterizes my later pieces such as Kontrakadenz, Air, Pression etc. more consistently. In temA, unlike what happened in my previous works, the naturalistic extreme cases were consciously accepted but at the same time integrated into a very rigorous musical context which was also to give a new meaning to the traditional playing conceptions. The violation of the tabus felt in the nearly 70's (not only regarding this piece) lay to a less degree in the phenomenon of the sound deformation (snoring, pressed strings, soundless blowing etc.), since such an alienation was perfectly tolerated as an humoristic, dadaistic or expressionistic element. Rather the shock was caused by the technical logic of the movements which rendered relative the sheer surrealistic effect and had to be taken seriously instead of in an humoristic way.
(Helmut Lachenmann, translation: Roger Clement)

Bibliography:

Hiekel, Jorn Peter: Escaped from Paradise? Construction of Identity and Elements of Ritual in Vocal Works by Helmut Lachenmann and Giacinto Scelsi, in: Vocal Music and Contemporary Identities. Unlimited Voices in East Asia and the West (= Routledge Research in Music 3), hrsg. von Christian Utz und Frederick Lau, London und New York: Routledge 2013, S. 158-174
Meyer-Kalkus, Reinhart: Klangmotorik und verkorpertes Horen in der Musik Helmut Lachenmanns, in: Der Atem des Wanderers. Der Komponist Helmut Lachenmann, hrsg. von Hans-Klaus Jungheinrich, Mainz: Schott 2006, S. 91-110
ders.: Stimme und Atemsyntax in Vortragskunst, Prosa und Musik, in: Musik & Asthetik, Heft 51 (Juli 2009), S. 73-106
Nonnenmann, Karl Rainer: Auftakt der instrumentalen musique concrete. Helmut Lachenmanns temA, in: MusikTexte 67/68 (1997), S. 106-114


CD:

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Bibliography:

Hidalgo Manuel: Mozart in Lachenmann in: auf (-) und zuhoren. 14 essayistische Reflexionen uber die Musik und die Person Helmut Lachenmanns hrsg. von Hans-Peter Jahn Hofheim: Wolke 2005 S. 35-46
Hiekel Jorn Peter: Interkulturalitat als existentielle Erfahrung. Asiatische Perspektiven in Helmut Lachenmanns Asthetik in: Nachgedachte Musik. Studien zum Werk von Helmut Lachenmann hrsg. von Jorn Peter Hiekel und Siegfried Mauser Saarbrucken: Pfau 2005 S. 62-84
Kaltenecker Martin: Was nun? Die Musik Helmut Lachenmanns als ,,Beispiel in: Der Atem des Wanderers. Der Komponist Helmut Lachenmann hrsg. von Hans-Klaus Jungheinrich Mainz: Schott 2006 S. 113-128
Maier Birgit; Britz Vanessa; Arnold Miriam: Helmut Lachenmann: NUN in: Flote aktuell (2003) Heft 4 S. 20-24
Pas-Van Riet Gaby: On NUN in: Helmut Lachenmann - Inward Beauty hrsg. von Dan Albertson Contemporary Music Review 23 (2004) Heft 3/4 S. 165f
Svoboda Mike: NUN - An Inside View in: Helmut Lachenmann - Inward Beauty hrsg. von Dan Albertson Contemporary Music Review 23 (2004) Heft 3/4 S. 161-164
Wellmer Albrecht: Helmut Lachenmann: Die Befreiung des Klangs in der konstruktivistischen Tradition der europaischen Moderne in: ders. Versuch uber Musik und Sprache Munchen: Hanser 2009 S. 270-299

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