Avant Garde
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Final Exam Format I. 10 listening (list provided) composer/title + period II. Choice of 2 binary terms: justify Examples: Baroque/Classical Concerto/Symphony Chant/Organum III. 2 Objective Sections Questions from reading and lecture IV. 2 Essay Questions A. Composers B. Works Schoenberg Brahms Leoninus Liszt Beethoven Appalachian Spring Un di felice Mazurka in B-flat Tristan und Isolde: Liebestod Aguns Dei from the Pope Marcellus Mass Voiles (Sails) Symphony #5: 3rd Movement Trancendental Etude: Wild Hunt Adams Schubert Mahler Society for the Presentation of Avant-Garde Music Piano Sonata #2 (3rd mvmt.) Pierre Boulez Song of the Youths Karlheinz Stockhausen Music of Changes John Cage Six Pianos Steve Reich String Quartet #6 (finale) George Rochberg My what an interesting example of ____________. It sort of reminds me of _________. •Minimalism •Ellen Zwillich Concerto Grosso •Aleatory (chance) Music •John Adams, Short Ride in a Fast Machine •Total Serialism • Edgar Varese, Poème électronique •Computer and Electronic Music •Neo-Baroque or PostModernism •Arnold Schoenberg, Trio from Suite for Piano •John Cage, 4’ 33” I. Total Serialism Pierre Boulez Milton Babbitt Total Serialists: “Schoenberg didn’t go far enough!” Anton Webern Sator Arepo tenet opera rotas The Planter Arepo holds the works of his hoe Pitch Duration Dynamics And this is a good idea because _______?? 1. Creates Work rich with musical relationships And this is a good idea because _______?? 1. Creates Work rich with musical relationships 2. Autonomy 3. Allies Music with Science 4. Determinacy = Composer Triumphant Composer-Performer-Listener My what an interesting example of ____________. It sort of reminds me of _________. •Minimalism •Ellen Zwillich Concerto Grosso •Aleatory (chance) Music •John Adams, Short Ride in a Fast Machine •Total Serialism • Edgar Varese, Poème électronique •Computer and Electronic Music •Neo-Baroque or PostModernism •Arnold Schoenberg, Trio from Suite for Piano •John Cage, 4’ 33” II. Computer & Electronic Music Edgard Varèse/Morton Subotnick/Karlheinz Stockhausen And this is a good idea because _______?? Musique concrète vs. Electronic Music 1. Ultimate extension of Determinacy X Composer-Performer-Listener 2. Let’s explore timbre rather than pitch organization My what an interesting example of ____________. It sort of reminds me of _________. •Minimalism •Ellen Zwillich Concerto Grosso •Aleatory (chance) Music •John Adams, Short Ride in a Fast Machine •Total Serialism • Edgar Varese, Poème électronique •Computer and Electronic Music •Neo-Baroque or PostModernism •Arnold Schoenberg, Trio from Suite for Piano •John Cage, 4’ 33” III. Aleatory (Chance) Music John Cage And this is a good idea because _______?? 1. Reaction against Determinacy 2. Broadens Definition of Music emancipate noise prepared piano 3. Interrogates: What is a composer/work/performance? 4. Composers’ task: Create interesting sounds? or Create contexts in which sounds can be heard as musically interesting? My what an interesting example of ____________. It sort of reminds me of _________. •Minimalism •Ellen Zwillich Concerto Grosso •Aleatory (chance) Music •John Adams, Short Ride in a Fast Machine •Total Serialism • Edgar Varese, Poème électronique •Computer and Electronic Music •Neo-Baroque or PostModernism •Arnold Schoenberg, Trio from Suite for Piano •John Cage, 4’ 33” IV. Minimalism Process music/Pattern Music Steve Reich, Philip Glass, John Adams And this is a good idea because _______?? 1. Repudiates brash dissonance of modernism 2. Elevates time over pitch organization 3. Trance Music (reconceives music as experience not structure) links to Techno and Rave My what an interesting example of ____________. It sort of reminds me of _________. •Minimalism •Ellen Zwillich Concerto Grosso •Aleatory (chance) Music •John Adams, Short Ride in a Fast Machine •Total Serialism • Edgar Varese, Poème électronique •Computer and Electronic Music •Neo-Baroque or PostModernism •Arnold Schoenberg, Trio from Suite for Piano •John Cage, 4’ 33” V. Post-Modernism George Rochberg, William Bolcolm And this is a good idea because _______?? 1. Just Communicate 2. The Post-Modern Dilemma progress, innovation, originality seem impossible Wither Music? What will be Music?
