Some observations on pitch, texture, and from in Xenakis' Mists

Mists is one of Xenakis's major works from the 1980s and his third and largest work for the piano. It makes use of several of Xenakis's theoretical concepts, including stochastic composition, sieve theory, and his general theory of musical time. In addition, the use of arborescences (branching structures) in this work provides an opportunity to demonstrate the use of graphic images and their transformations in Xenakis's compositional process. The first two sections of this article, devoted to pitch and texture respectively, introduce the musical materials used in the composition of Mists . The interaction of these materials is discussed in the third and final section, which explores various aspects of the work's large-scale structure

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