Music history ch 37
The first successful electronic instrument was the
Theremin.
One significant work that combined electronic and recorded sound was
Varèse's Poème électronique
According to Messiaen, small durational values inserted into repetitions in order to produce time units of irregular length are
added values.
How did Witold Lutosławski take a modernist approach to indeterminacy?
He insisted on his authorship of his compositions.
Which composer was known for offering performers a selection of musical elements, planning how they were to be chosen and used, but leaving the selection to chance operations?
John Cage
How did the use of non-Western music by composers such as Michael Tippett, Colin McPhee, and Henry Cowell differ from that of nineteenth-century composers?
They explored Eastern music for its uniqueness rather than foreign otherness.
In Carter's metric modulations
a period of transition between one tempo and meter to another is precisely crafted
Fluxus was
an assemblage of avant-garde performance artists
How were many composers in the United States and Canada financially supported in the aftermath of World War II?
at universities
Harry Partch
devised a 43-note scale based on just intonation.
Musique concrète is
electronic music made with recorded sounds
In Music of Changes, Cage
employed his concept of chance.
Penderecki's Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima is based on
texture and process
In much of Xenakis's music, he explores
texture and sound combination
In his Sequenzas, Berio taps
the new virtuosity.
The most prominent Latin American composer after Villa-Lobos was
Alberto Ginastera
Which work was the first to apply serial principles to duration?
Babbitt's Three Compositions for Piano
One of the most successful proponents of tonality or neotonality was
Benjamin Britten
Which composer wrote many works for amateur choir?
Benjamin Britten
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 closest collaborator was
Merce Cunningham
One composer associated with New York abstract expressionist painters who employed indeterminacy in his music is
Morton Feldman
Of the following, who remained committed to tonality in the twentieth century?
Samuel Barber
Messiaen's modes of limited transposition are
groupings of notes that are not altered when transposed
Cage's practice of leaving parts of the music unspecified is known as
indeterminacy
Earle Brown's December 1952
is in graphic notation with geometric shapes but no notes are specified.
According to Olivier Messiaen, groupings of notes that are not altered when transposed are
modes of limited transposition.
Creating music electronically from prerecorded sounds was known as
musique concrète.
John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes is for
prepared piano
The third movement of Berio's Sinfonia utilizes
quotations of borrowed works
The first section of Stockhausen's Kreuzspiel presents the row in
rotation.
Total serialism is
the treatment of musical elements other than pitch with the principles of serialism.
Gunther Schuller's music that combined elements of classical and jazz music was known as
third stream.
Treating aspects of music other than pitch according to the principles of Schoenberg's twelve-tone compositional technique is known as
total serialism
In Stockhausen's moment form
units of contrasting character are presented in succession without suggestion of a direction, creating a sense of timelessness.
