| Scores: Between 1950 and 1970:
Morton Feldman,
In Search of an Orchestration
Edith A. Johnson,
from Some Aspects of the Compositional Style of Morton Feldman,
June 1985, NU Dissertation
"Through the
first twenty years of his career Feldman develops a new sort of playing
technique in which 1) sounds are generally as soft as possible and
2) all attacks are minimized. These two guidelines work together to
blur the characteristic envelopes of traditional instruments, and
give Feldman a unique palette with which to work. 1
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