It is composed using what the composer calls moment form, and consists of 51 sections (called "moments").
Few composers still called their compositions sinfonia concertante after the classical music era.
The composer called it "A requiem for my daughter".
The composer calls these events "sound windows" (Stockhausen 1978, 344).
The term itself is a recent invention of scholars: no composer of the 17th century ever called a piece a monody.
It's just what the composer called it: a symphony with viola solo.
In an 1805 letter the composer called him "one of my most loyal friends and promoters of my art."
The result was Renard, which the composer called "a burlesque for the stage with singing and music."
Both, however, create what the composer calls an "axis": a fulcrum on which the classical and the popular can sway in happy balance.
"Chain 2" is an example of what the composer called "chain form."