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American Percussion Works is a rare collection of seldom heard works each with specific rules or themes as a basis for the compositions. In John Cage's First Construction the principle is based on the figure 16. Alberto Ginatera's work Cantata para America Magica, uses pre-Columbian texts based on the conditions of human life, with war, natural phenomena, daybreak, night and love. Lou Harrison mixes non-European forms which 'follow the pattern of having a single melodic part accompanied (or enhanced) by rhythmic percussion' in his Koncherto. Varese's Ionisation also enters a new land being his first solely percussive work where 'he finds a new grammar for the language of music.' Album Tracks 1. First Construction (In Metal) 2. Cantata Para América Mágica, Op. 27 3. I. Preludio y Canto a la Aurora 4. II. Nocturno y Canto de Amor 5. III. Canto Para la Partida de los Guerreros 6. IV. Interludio Fantástico 7. V. Canto de Agonía y Desolación 8. VI. Canto de la Profecía 9. Concerto for Violin and Percussion Orchestra 10. I. Allegro Maestoso, Allegro Vivace 11. II. Largo, Cantabile 12. III. Allegro Vigoroso, Poco Presto 13. Ionisation
