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1 Wither Music? From Modernism To Post-Modernism

2 Final Exam Format I. 10 listening (list provided)
composer/title + period

3 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

4 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

5 Society for the Presentation
of Avant-Garde Music Piano Sonata #2 (3rd mvmt.) Pierre Boulez Song of the Youths Karlheinz Stockhausen 4’ 33” John Cage Six Pianos Steve Reich String Quartet #6 (finale) George Rochberg

6 Minimalism Aleatory (chance) Music Total Serialism Computer and
My what an interesting example of ____________. It sort of reminds me of _________. Minimalism Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring John Adams, Short Ride in a Fast Machine Edgar Varese, Poème électronique Arnold Schoenberg, Trio from Suite for Piano John Cage, 0’ 00” Aleatory (chance) Music Total Serialism Computer and Electronic Music Neo-Baroque or Post- Modernism

7 I. Total Serialism Pierre Boulez Milton Babbitt

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

9 Anton Webern

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

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

12 Pitch Duration Dynamics

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

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

17 Minimalism Aleatory (chance) Music Total Serialism Computer and
My what an interesting example of ____________. It sort of reminds me of _________. Minimalism Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring John Adams, Short Ride in a Fast Machine Edgar Varese, Poème électronique Arnold Schoenberg, Trio from Suite for Piano John Cage, 0’ 00” Aleatory (chance) Music Total Serialism Computer and Electronic Music Neo-Baroque or Post- Modernism

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

19 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

20 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, 0’ 00” Aleatory (chance) Music Total Serialism Computer and Electronic Music Neo-Baroque or Post- Modernism

21 III. Aleatory (Chance) Music
John Cage

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23 John Cage Imaginary Landscapes, No. 4

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

25 Minimalism Aleatory (chance) Music Total Serialism Computer and
My what an interesting example of ____________. It sort of reminds me of _________. Minimalism Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring John Adams, Short Ride in a Fast Machine Edgar Varese, Poème électronique Arnold Schoenberg, Trio from Suite for Piano John Cage, 0’ 00” Aleatory (chance) Music Total Serialism Computer and Electronic Music Neo-Baroque or Post- Modernism

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

27 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

28 Minimalism Aleatory (chance) Music Total Serialism Computer and
My what an interesting example of ____________. It sort of reminds me of _________. Minimalism Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring John Adams, Short Ride in a Fast Machine Edgar Varese, Poème électronique Arnold Schoenberg, Trio from Suite for Piano John Cage, 0’ 00” Aleatory (chance) Music Total Serialism Computer and Electronic Music Neo-Baroque or Post- Modernism

29 V. Post-Modernism George Rochberg, William Bolcolm

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

31 Wither Music?

32 ?

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34 What will be Music?

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