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New ideas; borrowed program music change compositional language vertical lines of music like a cage assymmetry |
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How do you organize atonal music? |
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timbre borrowed form rhythmic repetition text choreography |
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Schoenberg’s two students |
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brief pieces due to lack of repetition expert audience |
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“Extension of serial treatments to parameters beyond pitch” using rhythmic durations, articulation, instrumentation |
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Government attempt to shape art vague; working class; portray spirit/power |
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Who is the author and composer of Pulcinella-Serenata Largo? |
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Stravinsky Couperin Perogolesi |
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patriotic simplistic, easy melody, defined phrases |
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Copland; programmatic ballet |
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Soldiers home from war sought free education; institutions of higher education; new universities and faculty |
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Optimism in Post WWII America |
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America as chief military power economic boom increase in marriage, fertility rates higher standard of living |
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Anxiety in Post WWII America |
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Atomic bomb (Russian military powers) fake 200 member communist list in gov |
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Penderecki; response to Hiroshima; hymn/memorial experimental technique; musical horror |
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Louvin Brothers; Advent of nuclear apocalypse |
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white family man; spawned civil rights movement |
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Steve Riech; Response to Holocaust and Genocide |
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Varese; magnetic tape, tool for new sound |
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Legacy of Webern; integral/total serialism |
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“3 Compositions for Piano” |
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veteran; music = science; research music |
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“Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano” |
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Saught freedom aleatoric gave up control (4:33) |
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minimal change over a period of time; music slowly breaks apart |
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“On the Transmigration of Souls” |
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John Adams; programmatic reference |
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What is music? What should it do? |
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Transform suffering into beauty; Freedom of the mind, real-time art |
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“From Hanover Square North at the End of a Tragic Day, the Voice of the People Again was Heard” |
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Ives; Lusitania Submarine sunk with 1,260 dead; theme “on the sweet bye and bye” |
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Reverse of theme and variations; theme develops are introduced throughout the piece |
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