Sintaxis

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Bruno Maderna, an Italian composer and conductor, created a piece titled Sintaxis. This work, composed for four unspecified electronic timbres, showcases Maderna's interest in exploring new sonic possibilities within electronic music.2

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Bruno Maderna
…Notturno for tape (1956) and Sintaxis for four different, unspecified electronic timbres (tone colours) display his interest in new sonorities. His oboe concerto (1962) reveals a more conventional viewpoint, although even in this he made use of small-scale aleatory (chance and improvisatory) operations.
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…Notturno for tape (1956) and Sintaxis for four different, unspecified electronic timbres (tone colours) display his interest in new sonorities. His oboe concerto (1962) reveals a more conventional viewpoint, although even in this he made use of small-scale aleatory (chance and improvisatory) operations.
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