Music History 4 Flashcards
John Cage
Avant Garde, experimentalist, tala organising by duration, no emotion or stroy
Chance
taking away decisions normal made by composer and leaving it to chance. I-Ching
Cage Sonata V
prepared piano, very percussive sounding binary form, square root form
Cage Music of Chnage
I-Ching, piano only, chance, sparse in sound
Indeterminacy
Leaving parts of the music up to the performers
Morton Feldman
abstract expressionistic painters, graph notation
Feldman- Projection 1
cello only, graph notation, looks like lots of blocks, boxes for approx register but pitches indeterminancy,
Serialsim
adoption of 12 tone system, total serialism used on pitch, dynamics, timbre
Karlheinz Stockhausen
total serialism, Darmstadt, electronic music pioneer, quotation, collage,
Stockhausen
Crossplay, piano, oboe, clarinet, percussion, total serialism,
Boulez- Le marteau sans maitrie
serialism to pitch and duration, pointalistic,
Berio- Sequenza
virtuosity, voice strange noises, graphic notation, lughing, soundsindeterminant,
Carter, elliot
uas, metric modulation, virtuosic
babbitt-Philomel
music young trees,live and taped music, soprano solo, with tape, serial procedures
Penderick- threnody
52 strings
Adams- short ride fast machine
ostinato, 80’s, wood block to start, bombastic