Sonorism (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Sonorism is an approach to musical composition that focuses on the characteristics, quality, and texture of sound. This emphasis on sound is inherently connected with a search for new types of sounds, and sonorism relies on experimenting with instruments to create novel playing techniques. Sonorism - the direction in contemporary music, belongs to the avant-garde currents of the Second, typical mainly for Polish music in the sixties, and is often synonymous with the term "Polish Composers' School. In sonorism and form-creating element highlighted was the same wording, usually extracted from non-traditional modes of traditional instruments (scraping, creaking and thumping on the box of a cello). This trend was started by the Train and I Krzysztof Penderecki's String Quartet, the two songs composed in 1960. It was followed and developed by Henryk Gorecki (Genesis I, II, Choros I), Wojciech Kilar (RIFF 62, Generique), Kazimierz Serocki (symphonic frescoes), Andrzej Dobrowolski, Zbigniew Rudzinski.