Music History final ch 27

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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


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