Music Flashcards
Music that uses the tape recorder is called
musique concrete,
born on December 22, 1883. He was considered an “innovative French-born composer.”
EDGARD VARESE
is a central figure in the realm of electronic music. Born in Cologne, Germany, he had the opportunity to meet Messia en, Schoenberg, and Webern, the principal innovators at the time. Father of electronic music.
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN
was known as one of the 20th century composers with the widest array of sounds in his works. He was born in Los Angeles, California, USA on September 5, 1912 and became one of the most original composers in the history of western music.
John Cage
refers to a style wherein the piece always sounds different 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
*It began in the 19th century.
*Style of music and of painting that avoids definite forms or obvious statements.
*Highlighting suggestion and atmosphere.
Impressionsm
A pattern constructed entirely of whole tone intervals.
- Not only formed from the black and white keys of the piano but a combination of both.
- The scale does not have the interval of the 7. tone to the 8th
Whole tone scale
- This is the interval between the lowest and the highest notes forming a chord.
- Forming of Notes depend on the preferred intervals of the composers
Octaves and open fifths
Fifths and octaves
Ninth Chord
Parallel of Gliding Chords
was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. German movement
*Subjective look at an individual’s internal struggles and strife
- Also started in painting
- Explored bold colors, harsh dissonances, abstract (form without content) images
Expressionism
credited with the establishment of the twelve-tone system.
Arnold Schoenberg
- His early music ref ected the influence of his teacher, the Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
- His first successful masterpiece, The Firebird Suite (1910), composed for Diaghilev’s Russian Ballet
- Nationalistic musical style
Igor Stravinsky
The musical compositions of Varese are characterized by an emphasis on timbre and rhythm. He invented the term “organized sound,” which means that certain timbres and rhythms can be grouped together in order to capture a whole new definition of sound
EDGARD VARESE
