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''Musik im Bauch'' (Music in the Belly) is a piece of scenic music for six percussionists and music boxes composed by Karlheinz Stockhausen in 1975, and is Number 41 in his catalog of works. The world premiere was presented on 28 March 1975 as part of the Royan Festival. The performance was given by Les Percussions de Strasbourg in the haras (horse stable) in the town of Saintes, near to Royan. Its duration is roughly 38 minutes. ==History== Stockhausen dreamed ''Musik im Bauch'' in 1974, seven years after coining the phrase during a memorable evening with his daughter Julika, when she was two years old. All of a sudden, she had all sorts of noises in her insides, and he joked with her, "You have music in your belly!" The phrase prompted the toddler to erupt in laughter, throwing her arms in the air and endlessly repeating "Music in the belly!" Her laughing fit lasted so long that Stockhausen became concerned about her. She only gradually stopped laughing after he put her in bed, where she kept repeating the phrase and giggling as she fell asleep . The first sketch is a single leaf dated 28 February 1974, with brief and fragmentary written notes about the general musical and theatrical course. In the published score, Stockhausen claims it is an exactly written version of what he dreamed . However, some important details from the first sketch were later discarded. The first three melodies later used in this piece, "Aquarius", "Leo", and "Capricorn", were composed in preliminary form later in 1974 during one or more of Stockhausen's composition seminars at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. These melodies were later modified . In order to present the piece, Stockhausen composed twelve melodies for the zodiac signs, which can be performed independently as ''Tierkreis''. He found a Swiss manufacturer of musical boxes, Reuge, and he hired them to make the boxes, believing that there were no previous original compositions for music boxes in existence . In Stockhausen's composition catalog, ''Musik im Bauch'' is the 41st entry. It spawned at least ten subentries, including ''Tierkreis'', which is numbered as 41½. ''Musik im Bauch'' has been characterized as "a fairy tale for children" , "a vision of ritualistic savagery" , "a blend of fairy tale with American Indian tribal myth" , or else as "a ritual played out in Mexican Indian scenery" . Stockhausen cited ''Musik im Bauch'' as an example of the extended use of polyphony in his music. In comparison to early works like ''Gruppen'' and ''Zeitmaße'', where instruments often play at different speeds, ''Musik im Bauch'' represents a massive expansion of such timescales. The two marimba players only perform one ''Tierkreis'' melody for the entire piece. Stockhausen comments, "if you want to hear it, you need the ears of a giant, and the memory of a giant, otherwise you will not be able to tell if a wrong note is played, or at the wrong time, they are spread so far apart. Future generations will really have to expand their perception in order to be aware of a melody which unfolds over such a long time" . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Musik im Bauch」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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