Dan Schmidt ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>The only example I can think of is the cliche of opening a piece with music
>that sounds like the orchestra tuning up.  I can't remember where I first
>heard this (a Del Tredici piece, maybe), but it's the kind of thing that's
>amusing the first piece you hear it in and annoying all the times
>afterwards.

I think it was done long before Del Tredici.  And how about Stockhausen's
Momente, which begins with the chorus applauding?

Deryk Barker
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