Wither Music? From Modernism To Post-Modernism.

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Wither Music? From Modernism To Post-Modernism

Final Exam Format I. 10 listening (list provided) composer/title + period Choice of 2 binary terms: justify Examples: Baroque/Classical Concerto/Symphony Chant/Organum III. 2 Objective Sections Questions from reading and lecture IV. 2 Essay Questions

A. Composers B. Works   Schoenberg Appalachian Spring Brahms Un di felice Leoninus Mazurka in B-flat Liszt Tristan und Isolde: Liebestod Beethoven Aguns Dei from the Pope Marcellus Mass Adams Voiles (Sails) Schubert Symphony #5: 3rd Movement Mahler Trancendental Etude: Wild Hunt

Society for the Presentation of Avant-Garde Music Piano Sonata #2 (3rd mvmt.) Pierre Boulez Song of the Youths Karlheinz Stockhausen Music of Changes John Cage Six Pianos Steve Reich String Quartet #6 (finale) George Rochberg

Minimalism Aleatory (chance) Music Total Serialism Computer and My what an interesting example of ____________. It sort of reminds me of _________. Minimalism Ellen Zwillich Concerto Grosso John Adams, Short Ride in a Fast Machine Edgar Varese, Poème électronique Arnold Schoenberg, Trio from Suite for Piano John Cage, 4’ 33” Aleatory (chance) Music Total Serialism Computer and Electronic Music Neo-Baroque or Post- Modernism

I. Total Serialism Pierre Boulez Milton Babbitt

Total Serialists: “Schoenberg didn’t go far enough!”

Anton Webern

Sator Arepo tenet opera rotas The Planter Arepo holds the works of his hoe

Pitch Duration Dynamics

And this is a good idea because _______?? 1. Creates Work rich with musical relationships

And this is a good idea because _______?? 1. Creates Work rich with musical relationships 2. Autonomy 3. Allies Music with Science 4. Determinacy = Composer Triumphant Composer-Performer-Listener

Minimalism Aleatory (chance) Music Total Serialism Computer and My what an interesting example of ____________. It sort of reminds me of _________. Minimalism Ellen Zwillich Concerto Grosso John Adams, Short Ride in a Fast Machine Edgar Varese, Poème électronique Arnold Schoenberg, Trio from Suite for Piano John Cage, 4’ 33” Aleatory (chance) Music Total Serialism Computer and Electronic Music Neo-Baroque or Post- Modernism

II. Computer & Electronic Music Edgard Varèse/Morton Subotnick/Karlheinz Stockhausen

And this is a good idea because _______?? X Musique concrète vs. Electronic Music 1. Ultimate extension of Determinacy X Composer-Performer-Listener 2. Let’s explore timbre rather than pitch organization

Minimalism Aleatory (chance) Music Total Serialism Computer and My what an interesting example of ____________. It sort of reminds me of _________. Minimalism Ellen Zwillich Concerto Grosso John Adams, Short Ride in a Fast Machine Edgar Varese, Poème électronique Arnold Schoenberg, Trio from Suite for Piano John Cage, 4’ 33” Aleatory (chance) Music Total Serialism Computer and Electronic Music Neo-Baroque or Post- Modernism

III. Aleatory (Chance) Music John Cage

And this is a good idea because _______?? 1. Reaction against Determinacy 2. Broadens Definition of Music emancipate noise prepared piano 3. Interrogates: What is a composer/work/performance? 4. Composers’ task: Create interesting sounds? or Create contexts in which sounds can be heard as musically interesting?

Minimalism Aleatory (chance) Music Total Serialism Computer and My what an interesting example of ____________. It sort of reminds me of _________. Minimalism Ellen Zwillich Concerto Grosso John Adams, Short Ride in a Fast Machine Edgar Varese, Poème électronique Arnold Schoenberg, Trio from Suite for Piano John Cage, 4’ 33” Aleatory (chance) Music Total Serialism Computer and Electronic Music Neo-Baroque or Post- Modernism

IV. Minimalism Steve Reich, Philip Glass, John Adams Process music/Pattern Music Steve Reich, Philip Glass, John Adams

And this is a good idea because _______?? 1. Repudiates brash dissonance of modernism 2. Elevates time over pitch organization 3. Trance Music (reconceives music as experience not structure) links to Techno and Rave

Minimalism Aleatory (chance) Music Total Serialism Computer and My what an interesting example of ____________. It sort of reminds me of _________. Minimalism Ellen Zwillich Concerto Grosso John Adams, Short Ride in a Fast Machine Edgar Varese, Poème électronique Arnold Schoenberg, Trio from Suite for Piano John Cage, 4’ 33” Aleatory (chance) Music Total Serialism Computer and Electronic Music Neo-Baroque or Post- Modernism

V. Post-Modernism George Rochberg, William Bolcolm

And this is a good idea because _______?? 1. Just Communicate 2. The Post-Modern Dilemma progress, innovation, originality seem impossible

Wither Music?

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What will be Music?

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