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1 Modern and Postmodern Music

2 Modernist Music Claude Debussy: Claire de Lune (Moonlight), impressionistic, evoking the atmosphere of nature Arnold Schönberg: Pierrot Lunaire, atonal expressionist music, deliberately avoids traditional chords and harmonies Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, a ballet with constantly changing, complex, and violent rhythms

3 The Age of Jazz African-American experience, heritage
Intonations, rhythms Spirituals “Blue note” / the Blues Ragtime: Scott Joplin From New Orleans to Chicago and New York Jazz in mainstream culture Symphonies, operas of George Gershwin, swing of Duke Ellington, cool jazz of Miles Davis

4 American Minimalism John Cage (1912 – 1992), Sonatas and Interludes ( ), “prepared piano” Steve Reich ( ), Music for 18 Musicians ( ), chiastic structure Philip Glass ( ), Einstein on the Beach (1976), a “punk aesthetic” opera

5 Electronic Music Wendy Carlos ( ), Switched On Bach (1968), plays Bach with a Moog synthesizer, first translation of classical music into electronic medium, film scores Brian Eno ( ), Discreet Music (1975), “algorithmic generative composition,” samples from Pachelbel played at altered tempos to produce ambient music Eno straddles worlds of pop music and composed music, member of Roxy Music, produces U2 and Coldplay

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