Music History final ch 27
After World War II, a highly influential German government-sponsored center for new music emerged in
Darmstadt
Charlie Parker's Anthropology uses the chord progression for
Gershwin's I Got Rhythm.
who remained committed to tonality in the twentieth century?
Samuel Barber
The first successful electronic instrument was the
Theremin
How does indeterminacy differ from chance?
In indeterminacy, the composer cedes control to the performer or the audience, rather than chance operations.
this 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
In Carter's metric modulations
a period of transition between one tempo and meter to another is precisely crafted.
In Cage's Musicircus
any number of musicians play different music simultaneously while the audience walks around.
The first 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.
Which work was the first to apply serial principles to duration?
Babbitt's Three Compositions for Piano
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.
One composer associated with New York abstract expressionist painters who employed indeterminacy in his music is
Morton Feldman.
Who developed free jazz?
Ornette Coleman.
In bebop, the main tune is known as the
head
Creating music electronically from prerecorded sounds was known as
musique concrète
In Britten's Peter Grimes, the main character is
persecuted by a crowd and driven to suicide.
John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes is for
prepared piano.
In his Sequenzas, Berio taps
the new virtuosity.
Treating aspects of musical other than pitch according to the principles of Schoenberg's twelve-tone composition has been called
total serialism.
Bebop involved
virtuoso solos and small ensembles