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.