37 - Postwar Classical Tradition Flashcards
1
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approaches 4
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- extensions of tradition
- radical avant garde
- commonalities amidst diversity
- distinctions in music’s purpose
2
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tonal traditionalism 3
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- indl styles without radical departure from past
- tonality or neotonility
- seeking to communicate to varied public
3
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samuel barber 3
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- tonal traditionalist
- modernist resources in tonal music
- ex: 12tone row in tonal framework
4
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benjamin britten 5
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- most prominant in tonl or netonal tradition
- govt support, wrote for films
- war requiem
- music for amateurs and children
- peter grimes
5
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peter grimes last scene 2
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- theme read as allegory for homosexual people in a hostile society
- bitonality: uncaring sea in C, uncaring townsfolk in A
6
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oliver messiaen 7
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- exploring different ways of music making
- extended techniques of debussy and stravinsky
- post-tonal, playing with modes
- notated birdsong
- avoids moving toward resolution
- duration, not meter for meditative atmospher
- 4tet for the end of time
7
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liturgie de cristal 4
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- from messiaen’s 4tet for the end of time
- written in a nazi prison camp
- harmonic stasis - piano plays 29 chords 6 times
- beautiful timbres, colorful harmonies
8
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serialism 4
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- series of melody or rhythm worked with in different ways, very diverse
- Darmstadt centre, ideas fostered and spread
- free of ideologies
- includes 12 tone
9
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total serialism
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principle of tone rows applied to parameters other than pitch
10
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milton babbitt 3
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- applies serial principles to duration
- time-point approach to duration
- thinks composers should develop music as far as they can, intellectual and academic purposes
11
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time point approach 2
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- each measure divided into 12 = units of time
- notes begin at particular points on time grid using # rows
12
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karlheinz stockhausen
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also serial
13
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pierre boulez’s bourreaux de solitude 4
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- 6th movement of le marteau sans maitre
- dense and complex
- associates dynamics with certain pitches
- almost impervious to analysis
14
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john cage 4
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- studied with schoenberg
- dimensions of whole work related to individual aspects
- search for new sounds
- tala of indian music - duration
15
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cage’s prepared piano 3
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- sonata v
- various objects inserted between strings of piano, results in delicate and complex percussive sounds
- exploring capabilities and sounds
16
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cage 50s and 60s 2
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- opposed museum like preservation of music
- created opportunity for experiencing sounds as themselves (similar to absolute music)
17
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cage’s music of changes for piano book 1 (3)
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- “choose your own adventure”
- to be appreciated in moment bc never the same twice
- charts of possible sounds, silences, dynamics, durations, tempo
18
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cage and indeterminacy 2
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- certain aspects left unspecified
- 4’33’’
19
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morton feldman 5
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- also used indeterminacy
- pointillistic, register indicated but not specific pitches, not focussed on pitch
- timbre indicated
- atonal
- expressionist
20
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musique concrete
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recorded sounds manipulated through mechanical and electronic means, assembled into collages like blocks
21
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pierre schaeffer
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worked with electronic sound as development of noise as music
22
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milton babbitt’s philomel 2
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- live voice and voice on tape engage in diologue
- serial procedures
