Week 10 - Musicals and Musical Postmodernism: Musical Postmodernism

Question 1

What is modernism

Answer 1

finding ways of rejecting old patterns

Question 2

What is Post-modernism

Answer 2

Radical experimentation

Question 3

When was post-modernism

Answer 3

WW2, Post 1945

Question 4

What are some aspects of post-modernism

Answer 4

A notion that there is no "universal" 
No one right way of doing music
 Equal across cultures and traditions 
No separation between "high and low culture" 
Anything can be art

Question 5

“100 Cans of Campbells soup”

Answer 5

Painted by Andy Warhol

Painted 100 cans of Campbells soup

Question 6

Changes in Postmodernism

Answer 6

No high or low art

Forms are dated

Question 7

Changes in music during post-modernism

Answer 7

Increased freedom for performers
	a. Xenakis score 
 Asked what new sounds are possible?
	a. Can instruments be played differently 
 Increased control

Question 8

Who is John Cage 1912-1992

Answer 8

America, lived in NYC close to subway
○ Used city sounds for inspiration
Into mycology: Study of mushrooms
○ Into drugs and how they shape our consciousness

Question 9

What is the “prepared piano”

Answer 9

Installed bolts, washers, nuts (semi destroys piano)

Changes the timbre of the sounds

Question 10

Characteristics of Sonata III by John Cage

Answer 10

Sounds like percussion, very eclectic, some pitches sustained, control

Question 11

Characteristics of 4’33 by John Cage

Answer 11

Can hear the ambiance of the room
Music: Sounds understood as music acceptable to people of a subculture
Element of chance
We can’t control anything that can happen in a piece
○ “Chance music”

Question 12

Characteristics of Imaginary Landscape IV by John Cage

Answer 12

Is structured but within it is chance

24 performers + 12 radios, 2 performers per radio