moment-form
moment-form. Type of work devised by Stockhausen, the ‘moment’ being a short part of a comp. having its own mus. characteristic. What occurs within this moment may be regarded as more important than the succession between moments, which may be indeterminate as in Stockhausen's Momente (1961–4).
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Titus •cactus • saltus • Diophantus • Sanctus •Rastus, Theophrastus •altostratus, cirrostratus, nimbostratus, stratus •conspectus, prospectus •… Insight , Insight
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