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''Studie 2'' is eighty-one sine tones pitched along an exponential frequency scale which spans just over seven octaves. The steps are all perceived as equal and are a little over 1/16th of an octave in size. [...] The most significant thing about these intervals chosen by the 25th root of 5 is that no octaves occur. The lowest frequency is 100&nbsp;c.p.s, and no multiple of 100 by any whole number occurs throughout the scale.<ref name=Harvey>
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''Studie 2'' is eighty-one sine tones pitched along an exponential frequency scale which spans just over seven octaves. The steps are all perceived as equal and are a little over 1/16th of an octave in size. [...] The most significant thing about these intervals chosen by the 25th root of 5 is that no octaves occur. The lowest frequency is 100&nbsp;c.p.s, and no multiple of 100 by any whole number occurs throughout the scale.<ref name=Harvey/>
 
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Revision as of 13:11, 11 April 2020

Electronic Study 2 is a piece by Karlheinz Stockhausen created in 1954.[1]

In it, "he selects quite a constricted range of material, the proceeds to cover it totally, to use up all the possibilities that the imagination considers worth while".[1]

Studie 2 is eighty-one sine tones pitched along an exponential frequency scale which spans just over seven octaves. The steps are all perceived as equal and are a little over 1/16th of an octave in size. [...] The most significant thing about these intervals chosen by the 25th root of 5 is that no octaves occur. The lowest frequency is 100 c.p.s, and no multiple of 100 by any whole number occurs throughout the scale.[1]

This, presumably, is what is on Delia's Attic Tape DD165: "Stockhausen Study 2".

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Jonathan Harvey, The Music of Stockhausen: An Introduction, University of California Press, 1975, pp.25-28.