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