page_title: Klang (Stockhausen)
section_title: Nineteenth Hour: Urantia
hierarchical_section_title: Klang (Stockhausen) / Nineteenth Hour: Urantia
caption_attribution_description: English: Southbank Centre's 21 acre estate, from Waterloo Bridge to the London Eye. (Luis Artus)
context_page_description: Klang —Die 24 Stunden des Tages is a cycle of compositions by Karlheinz Stockhausen, on which he worked from 2004 until his death in 2007. It was intended to consist of 24 chamber-music compositions, each representing one hour of the day, with a different colour systematically assigned to every hour. The cycle was unfinished when the composer died, so that the last three "hours" are lacking. The 21 completed pieces include solos, duos, trios, a septet, and Stockhausen's last entirely electronic composition, Cosmic Pulses. The fourth composition is a theatre piece for a solo percussionist, and there are also two auxiliary compositions which are not part of the main cycle. The completed works bear the work numbers 81–101.
context_section_description: Urantia, for soprano (live or prerecorded) and electronic music (layers 9, 8, 7 from Cosmic Pulses) 2007 (19 mins., 40 secs.). Work number 99. The specified colour is HKS 23 (fire-engine red [Verkehrsrot]) (Stockhausen 2008e, cover, I, and II).
  The manuscript score of Urantia is dated 21 February 2007, making it very likely the first of the Klang solo pieces with electronics to have been completed (Siano 2013, 46). It was premiered in the Queen Elizabeth Hall at the Southbank Centre, London, on 8 November 2008, by Kathinka Pasveer, soprano (prerecorded) and sound projection (Kohl 2008, 21).
  Urantia is the name given to our earth in the Urantia Book (Urantia Foundation 1955, 1), "commonly referred to as 606 of Satania in Norlatiadek of Nebadon, meaning the six hundred sixth inhabited world in the local system of Satania, situated in the constellation of Norlatiadek, one of the one hundred constellations of the local universe of Nebadon" (Urantia Foundation 1955, 485).
  The three layers of electronic music—which rotates in different orbits around the hall, projected in eight channels—are moderately high in  pitch and contain amongst the highest number of notes of all of the layers from Cosmic Pulses: 20, 21 and 22 notes. The solo part, by contrast, is one of the simplest of this section of Klang. The German text, written by the composer, has only 26 syllables, and introduces just one new syllable in each of the work's 26 sections (Kohl 2008, 21):
caption: The Southbank Centre, London, where Urantia was premiered in 2008, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall (far left, by the Waterloo Bridge)
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