1. Music Evolution Yr 10 and 11 GCSE Music

2. Today’s Aims Define Music Evolution Understand and describe specific styles of music within Music Evolution -  Atonal Music  Serialism  Minimalism  Aleatoric Music  Club Dance Music/Electronic Music

3. What is Music Evolution ? Listening to the following short piece of music - Q. what period in musical history do you think they come from? A. Music in the 20 th Century = Music Evolution

4. Music Evolution Music in 20 th Century – over 100 years of music – broken down into 5 sections  Atonal Music  Serialism  Minimalism  Aleatoric Music  Club Dance Music/Electronic Music

5. Atonal Music Listen to this first piece of traditional ‘classical’ piece of music – take note of the instruments, types of chords, elements of music used. Now listen to this second piece of music – what’s different from the 1 st piece?  Try and list all the main features of the music

6. Atonal Music and Serialism The break up of tonal music – Music without a key!  Complex Rhythms  Changing time signatures  No home key/tonal centre  Chromatic  Huge leaps  Dissonances  Instruments playing in extreme ranges Schoenburg Serialism – a new way of organising the break up of tonality (we go into detail later) Schoenburg/Webern

7. Aleatoric ? – Things get a little odd! Whats happened to the music in this piece? – has everyone gone mad! Experimental NNew performances techniques developed JJohn Cage SStockhausen PPenderecki

8. Minimalism? Listen to the next piece of music – again try and list all the features of the music. How is it different?

9. Minimalism features Repetitive rhythms and phrases Use of melodic cells (rather than melodies) Slow and gradual changes in harmony Adding or removing notes to bring about a gradual change Lack of modulation (no key changes) Modal/diatonic chords No changes in Tempo Polyrhythmic textures Use of pre-recorded tape/ and or electronic instruments  Terry Riley  Steve Reich  Philip Glass  John Adams

10. Club Dance/Electronic music Listening to the following piece of music – list the instruments and features of the music  Loop  Midi (Musical Instrument Digital Interface)  Sampler  Sequencer  Drum Machine  Original music – changed/manipulated in some way by technology  Bass and drum driven