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Nomos Alpha


 

Nomos Alpha (1966) is a piece for solo cello composed by Iannis Xenakis in 1965, commissioned by Radio Bremen for cellist Siegfried Palm, and dedicated to mathematicians Aristoxenus of Tarentum, Evariste Galois, and Felix Klein (DeLio 1985, p.xii).

Sources

  • DeLio, Thomas, ed. (1985). Contiguous Lines: Issues and Ideas in the Music of the '60's and '70's. ISBN 0819143308.
  • DeLio, Thomas. "The Dialectics of Structure and Materials: Iannis Xenakis' Nomos Alpha".
  • Xenakis, Iannis (1971). Formalized Music, p.219-236. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press.