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Glenn Branca

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Glenn Branca (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, October 6, 1948 - May 13, 2018) was an American avant-garde composer and guitarist known for his use of volume, alternative guitar tunings, repetition, droning, and the harmonic series. Branca received a 2009 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. Branca studied theater at Emerson College in Boston in the early 1970s. While there, he began experimenting with sound as the founder of an experimental theater group called Bastard Theater.

Top songs

  1. Lesson No. 2
  2. Structure
  3. The Spectacular Commodity
  4. The Ascension
  5. Light Field (In Consonance)
  6. Sym. No. 1, Movement 1
  7. Lesson No. 1 For Electric Guitar
  8. The Tone Row That Ruled the World
  9. Dissonance
  10. Light Field
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  1. Lesson No. 1
  2. Lesson No.2
  3. First Movement
  4. Third Movement
  5. Carbon Monoxide
  6. Bad Smells
  7. My Relationship
  8. You Got Me
  9. Second Movement
  10. Lightfield (In Consonance)
  11. Don't Let Me Stop You
  12. Velvets And Pearls
  13. Sym. No. 1, Movement 2
  14. Fourth Movement
  15. Quadratonic
  16. Lesson No. 3 (Tribute to Steve Reich)
  17. Fuck Yourself
  18. Sym. No. 1, Movement 3
  19. The Spectacular Commodity (For Eiko and Koma)
  20. The Blood
  21. TV Song
  22. Lost Chords
  23. Sym. No. 1, Movement 4
  24. Glazened Idols
  25. Jill
  26. Lesson No. 4
  27. You
  28. German Expressionism
  29. The Smoke (Guitar Concerto for Arad Evans)
  30. Fifth Movement
  31. Symphony No. 6: Second Movement
  32. Twisting In Space
  33. First Movement (Slow Mass)
  34. Symphony No. 3 - Gloria - First Movement
  35. Cold Thing (La Belle Dame Sans Merci)
  36. Symphony No. 3 - Gloria - Third Movement
  37. Symphony No. 5: 1st Movement
  38. Symphony No. 6: First Movement
  39. Symphony No. 5: 3rd Movement
  40. Symphony No. 5: 2nd Movement
  41. Symphony No. 6: Fourth Movement
  42. March
  43. Symphony No. 3 - Gloria - Second Movement
  44. Second Movement (Radioactive Poltergeist Kitchen 1955)
  45. Symphony No. 6: Third Movement
  46. Symphony No. 5: 4th Movement
  47. Symphony No. 5: 5th Movement (Part I)
  48. Third Movement (Melodrama And Nuclear Physics In The Global Theater)
  49. The Temple of Venus Pt. 1
  50. Symphony No. 5: 5th Movement (Part III)
  51. Fourth Movement (Sacred Field)
  52. Symphony No. 5: 5th Movement (Part II)
  53. Sym. No. 1, Movement 1
  54. Movement 1
  55. Symphony No. 6: Fifth Movement
  56. Fifth Movement (In the late 20th Century, the Impossible Becomes Possible) (Short Excerpt)
  57. Augustus - version 2007
  58. Lesson #1 For Electric Guitar
  59. Symphony No. 5: 6th Movement
  60. Light Fields (in Consonance)
  61. Sixth Movement
  62. Symphony #2: 2nd Movement (Excerpt)
  63. Augustus
  64. Symphony No. 8 (The Mystery) - I - the Passion
  65. Movement 2
  66. Chant
  67. Vengeance
  68. So That Each Person Is In Charge Of Himself
  69. Symphony #6: 4th Movement
  70. Drive
  71. Fifth Movement (Part I)
  72. Movement 3
  73. Fifth Movement (Part III)
  74. Fifth Movement (Part II)
  75. Symphony #3: 2nd Movement (Excerpt)
  76. Symphony No. 8 (The Mystery) - II - Spiritual Anarchy
  77. Movement 4
  78. Indeterminate Activity Of Resultant Masses
  79. Symphony #5: 4th Movement
  80. Seventh Movement (Polyhymnia)
  81. Symphony No. 10 (The Mystery Pt. 2) - I - the Final Problem
  82. Harmonic Series Chords
  83. First Movement (The Temple of Venus Pt. 1)
  84. Symphony No. 10 (The Mystery Pt. 2) - II - the Horror
  85. Sixth Movement (Fluid Density)
  86. Lesson No.1 For Electric Guitar
  87. Symphony #6: 5th Movement
  88. First Movement - Slow Mass
  89. Sym. No. 1, Movement 2
  90. Indeterminate Activity Of Resultant Masses (Branca)

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