Pierre Boulez - ’Figures - Doubles - Prismes’ (Audio + Full Score)

Pierre Boulez - Figures-Doubles-Prismes, for orchestra (1968) BBC Symphony Orchestra Conductor - Pierre Boulez Figures-Doubles-Prismes is a composition for orchestra by French composer Pierre Boulez His first purely orchestral work, it is an expansion of an earlier piece dating from 1958 titled ’Doubles’. Figures refers to simple elements, sharply characterized by dynamics, violence, softness, slowness, and so forth. These elements can be purely harmonic, or more rhythmically oriented, or purely melodic. They are not themes in the conventional way, but “states“ of musical being. Doubles has two meanings: the first is that of the eighteenth century word doppelgänger, which means a human double. Thus, in the process of development, each figure may have its double, which is related only to it and no other. Prisms occur when the figures or their doubles refract themselves one through the other. And in this case, one figure becomes the prism, and the other is refracted through it. By this process the maximum complexity is obtained, and the effect will be comparable to that of a kaleidoscope —Doubles—Prismes Join the Score Video Creator Discord Server: PATREON - Pay a small monthly fee and gain access to my online score library, full of rare scores that I have used in videos - PAYPAL - Donations of any amount welcome! -