Electronic Music Flashcards
The ability of electronic
machines such as synthesizers,
amplifiers, tape recorders, and
loudspeakers to produce
different sounds was
popularized by 20th century
notable composers.
Electronic Music
is a
music that uses the tape recorder.
Concrete Music or Musique Concrete
was considered an
“innovative French born
composer.
EDGARD VARÈSE
He pioneered and
created new sounds that bordered
between music and noise and
spent his life and career mostly in
the United States.
EDGARD VARÈSE
is considered as
the “Father of Electronic
Music,”
EDGARD VARÈSE
is a central figure
in the realm of electronic music.
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN
_________’s music was initially met
with resistance due to its heavily atonal
content with practically no clear melodic
or rhythmic sense.
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN
refers to a
style in which the piece always sounds
differently at every performance because
of the random techniques of production,
including the use of ring modulators or
natural elements that become a part of
the music.
Chance Music
Chance music is also known as
Aleatoric music
Uses most of the sounds emanating
from the surroundings, both natural and
man-made, such as honking cars, rustling
leaves, blowing wind, dripping water, or a
ringing phone.
Chance Music
was known as one
of the 20th-century composers
with the broadest array of
sounds in his works.
John Cage
became one of the most
original composers in the
history of western music
John Cage
________ challenged the very idea of music
by manipulating musical instruments to
attain new sounds and became the
“chance music.“
John Cage
became notable for his work The
Four Minutes and 33 Seconds (4’33”),
John Cage
a chance musical work that instructed
the pianist to merely open the piano lid
and remain silent for the length of time
indicated by the title.
