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Meredith Monk

Meredith Monk - On Behalf of Nature - Brooklyn Academy of Music
Photo: Steven Pisano from Brooklyn, NY, USA · CC BY 2.0

About the artist

Meredith Monk is primarily known for her vocal innovations, including a wide range of extended techniques, which she first developed in her solo performances before forming her own ensemble. In 1964, she graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and in 1968 she founded The House, a company dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach to performance. Her performances influenced many artists, including Bruce Nauman, whomst she met in San Francisco in 1968.

Top songs

  1. Ellis Island
  2. Walking Song
  3. Eon
  4. Cow Song
  5. Early Morning Melody
  6. Dawn
  7. Winter Variation
  8. Obsolete Objects
  9. Dolmen Music
  10. Ester's Song
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  1. Fear and Loathing in Gotham: Gotham Lullaby
  2. Gotham Lullaby
  3. Travellers 1, 2, 3
  4. Engine Steps
  5. Earth Seen From Above
  6. The Tale
  7. Travelling
  8. Core Chant
  9. Eva's Song
  10. Biography
  11. View 1
  12. Evening
  13. Afternoon Melodies
  14. Railroad (Travel Song)
  15. Cave Song
  16. Travellers 5
  17. Atlas - Part 3: Invisible Light: Earth Seen From Above
  18. Prologue
  19. Madwoman's Vision
  20. View 2
  21. Plague
  22. Porch
  23. Turtle Dreams (waltz)
  24. Education Of The Girlchild: Travelling
  25. Volcano Songs: Duets: Walking Song
  26. Urban March (Shadow)
  27. Strand (Gathering)
  28. Window in 7's
  29. Astronaut Anthem
  30. Dusk
  31. Unison
  32. Education of the Girlchild: The Tale
  33. The Games: Spaceship (Arr. M. Gordon for Chamber Ensemble)
  34. Hey Rhythm
  35. Knee
  36. Education of the Girlchild: Biography
  37. Paris
  38. Environs 1
  39. Understreet
  40. Epilogue
  41. Double Fiesta
  42. Last Song
  43. Braid 1 and Leaping Song
  44. Sigh
  45. Masks
  46. Panda Chant I
  47. Morning
  48. Do You Be
  49. Do You Be?
  50. Fields / Clouds
  51. Totentanz
  52. Waltz
  53. Tower
  54. Clusters 1
  55. Folkdance
  56. Scared Song
  57. Shift
  58. Dark/Light 2
  59. Cloud Code
  60. Travellers 4 / Churchyard Entertainment
  61. Early Morning Melody (Transcr. Parkin for Soprano Saxophone)
  62. Change
  63. Facing North: Northern Lights 1
  64. Slide
  65. Braid 2
  66. Monk: Railroad (Travel Song)
  67. Memory Song
  68. What does it mean?
  69. I Don't Know
  70. Little Breath
  71. Prophecy
  72. Dumb
  73. Maybe 1
  74. Fat Stream
  75. Summer Variation
  76. Dark/Light 1
  77. Vow
  78. Mapping
  79. Parlour Games
  80. Traces
  81. Fields/Clouds
  82. Conversation
  83. Clusters 2
  84. Quarry Lullaby
  85. Falling
  86. Liminal
  87. Liquid Air
  88. Woman at the Door
  89. Autumn Variation
  90. Line 1

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