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. . . “The Flying
Lesson” from Music for “The Birds”
(Hiller). This is a short piece of theater music in which phrases of a
conventional minuet in G major are played on a piano and are answered by
equivalent phrases with the same rhythm played on eight other instruments.
The instrumental group, however, plays random pitches generated with ILLIAC
I, thus providing disorderly answers to highly organized musical ideas,
a musical parallel to the stage action.
Lejaren Hiller
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