Changing of Postwar music Flashcards
1
Q
Anthropology
A
Parker and Gillispie
- Bebop
- 1945
- meant for attentive listening
- uses “rhythm changes”
- played from a leadsheet
2
Q
Liturige de Cristal
A
Messiaen
- quartet for violin, clarinet, violoncello, and piano
- 1940
- rhythm stasis
- violin and clarinet figures resemble bird calls
- repeating sequence of five notes from the whole tone scale
3
Q
Peter Grimes
A
Britten
- Opera
- 1944
- first english opera since purcell to enter international repertory
- allegory for homosexuals in a hostile society
- bitonality for townspeople and the sea (neither care)
4
Q
Sonata V
A
Cage
- Suite for prepared piano
- 1946
- units of time determined by square root forms
- various objects inserted bewteen strings of the piano
- interaction between content and durational structure
5
Q
Music of Changes
A
Cage
- Chance composition for piano
- 1951
- left normal composing decisions up to chance
- I-Ching, ancient Chinese book of Prophecy
- composer for the Avant Garde
6
Q
Sequenza III
A
Berio
- Solo for female voice
- 1965
- empasizes vocal virtuosity
- mostly graphic notation
- indeterminant aspects derive from cage
7
Q
Black Angels
A
Crumb
- electric string quartet
- 1970
- unconventional sound sources
- unusual means of bowing
- poems by Lorca
8
Q
Threnody: to the victims of Hiroshima
A
Penderecki
- Tone poem for string orchestra
- 1960
- one of the best known pieces on texture and process
- piece measures time by seconds
- players choose one of four patterns… INDETERMINANT
