Musical Cycles
Schnebel had a limited set of musical cycles, but he tended to work through them all at the same time, so it is nearly impossible to divide his written music history into defined sections. Sometimes a set would be worked through a decade or more, but his musical styles are still grouped together with labels; here are some of the more prominent sets:
“Versuche” (4 works) concerns the serial technique of composition, exploring space by putting large gaps between performers. And being highly religion-oriented in background and in practice as he is, his contributions to the world of modern religious music were some of the more important works: “Fur Stimmen (...missa est)” (4 works) is a set of vocal and organ experiments regarding prayers and verses of the Bible. “Produktionsprozesse” is a group of “language and body” compositions which concerns more of the physical act of sound producing itself rather than the actual sound being produced...with the performers utilizing speech and breathing organs (tongue, throat, etc.) in unusual styles through exercises which grow into a musical texture and atmosphere of broad communication formats.
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