1. Wither Music?
From Modernism
To Post-Modernism

2. 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

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. 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

5. 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

6. I. Total Serialism
Pierre Boulez
Milton Babbitt

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

8. Anton Webern

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

10. Pitch
Duration
Dynamics

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

14. 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

15. 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

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

17. 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

18. 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

19. III. Aleatory (Chance) Music
John Cage

20. 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?

21. 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

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

23. 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

24. 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

25. V. Post-Modernism
George Rochberg, William Bolcolm

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

27. Wither Music?

28. ?

29. What will be Music?