Discuss the principal political events in the following countries during the 1930s and 1940s: the Soviet Union, Germany and the German-?occupied lands, and the United States. |
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Too sexual
Stalin hates this opera Not socialist realism- Division of classes Sergey represents the working class- not morally correct banned for many years after Schos toned it down later |
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One that is manipulated- screws, paper, woodblocks |
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quartet for the end of Time by Messian |
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Wrote it in a concentration camp- Gorlitz -was an organist -was mystical catholic Nature vs. Heaven Rhythmic and harmonic ostinatos would take 4 hours for them to line up again (clarinet and violin-bird song cello and piano- rhythmic ostinatos) Hailed as a war hero after his return |
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Soviet Union music for everyone made the Union look really good equality for all Bordering propoganda How things are depicted- how the working class is depicted- their struggle is depicted with realism |
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Right after the New Deal is put into place Music for everyone Using folk ideas in the States Federal Music Project- helps musicians |
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New Objectivity (post expressionism) reaction against expressionism representative static quiet smooth representative miniature cool and cold
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Hindemith |
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Tone Rows- not only pitches, but rhythms and durations, the form itself, and instrumentation serialism to the MAX |
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John Cage Chance music Feldman, Earl Brown, Yoko Ono |
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Same overall effect regardless of what order smaller events occur math Talked about Xenakis (coined the term) – mathmatician and composer and Architech (1950s/60s) |
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Penderiski- Threnody: to the Victims of hiroshima compositions based on blocks of sound (harmonic/texture) |
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Gebrauchsmusik and how Hindenmith relates |
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Music for ameteurs Hindenmith is sympathetic to the working class and all people Music to sing and to play for everyone |
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phrase=2+3+5+8=18 18*18=324 |
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Major figures in the development of total serialism |
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Figures of the Drumstadt School |
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Boulez, Maderna, Nano, Stockhousen |
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Figures of the New York School |
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John Cage, Yoko Ono, Morton Feldman, Earl Brown |
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Pierre Schaeffer, Henry (Xenakis works here for a while) (stockhousen and Boulez are in and out) “Musiqu Concrete” philosophy – all sounds are taken from real life (non-musical) Change name to GRM later |
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Studio for Elektronicshe Musik (Germany) |
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Werner Meyer Eppler and Herbert Eimert Philosophy- All sounds are computer generated “Electronicshe Musik” |
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Columbia Princeton Music Center (NYC) |
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Ussachevsky and Luening Babbit later gets involved “tape music” |
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Any part of a musical work is indeterminate if it is chosen by chance, or if its performance is not precisely specified |
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summer course on new music in Germany |
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Degenerate music (German: Entartete Musik) was a label applied in the 1930s by the Nazi government in Germany to certain forms of music that it considered to be harmful or decadent. Against Serialism and Jazz |
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Government agency that created jobs for musicians |
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essentially meaning “utility music,” for music that exists not only for its own sake, but which was composed for some specific, identifiable purpose Hindenmith |
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Groupe de Recherches Musicales |
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GRM- changed the name from Studio D’essai to GRM Musique Concrete |
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