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New ideas; borrowed program music
change compositional language
vertical lines of music like a cage
assymmetry |
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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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