27 Text Assignment
Charlie Parker's Anthropology uses the chord progression for
Gershwin's I Got Rhythm
How does indeterminacy differ from chance?
In indeterminacy, the composer cedes control to the performer or audience, rather than chance operations
Who developed free jazz?
Ornette Coleman
Who remained committed to tonality in the 20th Century?
Samuel Barber
The first successful electronic instrument was the
Theremin
Who offered performers a selection of musical elements, but it was chance?
John Cage
Composer associated with New York abstract expressionist painters
Morton Feldman
In Garter's metric modulations
a period of transition between one tempo and meter to another is precisely crafted
In Cage's Musiccircus
any number of musicians play different music simultaneously while the audience walks around
1st Movement of Messiaen's Quatuor pour la fin du temps features
birdcalls
Miles Davis developed a relaxed style of jazz known as
cool jazz
Harry Partch
devised a 43-note scale based on just intonation
In his music, Messiaen sought to invoke a feeling of
ecstatic contemplation
Younger composers involved at IRCAM and elsewhere linked timbre and composition in
spectralism
In much of Xenakis's music, he explores
texture and sound combination
In his Sequenzas, Berio taps
the new virtuosity
Which work was the first to apply serial principles to duration?
Babbitt's Three Compositions for Piano
After WW2, a highly influential German Government-sponsored center for new music emerged in
Darmstadt, Germany
How does John Cage's music represent an avant-garde approach, as opposed to a modernist approach?
It raises fundamental questions about the nature of music, rather than extending elements of earlier music in new ways
John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes is for
Prepared piano
In bebop, the main tune is known as the
head
creating music electronically from prerecorded sounds was known as
musique concrete
In Britten's Peter Grimes, the main character is
persecuted by a crowd and driven to suicide
Treating aspects of musical parameters other than pitch according to the principles of Schoenberg's 12-tone composition has been called
total serialism
Bebop involved
virtuoso solos and small ensembles