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Unit 10 (LG 43 (about Pierrot (poet, sascal, clown), 1912, Pierrot Lunaire…
Unit 10
LG 43
1912
Pierrot Lunaire
Schoenberg
song cycle on 21 poems by Giraud
German translation
about Pierrot
poet
sascal
clown
female vocalist
chamber ensemble
Sprechstimme- speaking melody
Klangfarbenmelodie- each note played by different instruments
No. 18, Moonfleck
Disjunct
very fast
free flowing
Rondeau text
cononic
counterpoints
LG 56
The last of three songs
1965
Caballito Negro
little black horse
Crumb
Lorca
ABA'
Atonal
soprano
percussion
flute/piccolo
flutter tongue
soprano whinny like a horse
Glissandos
whisper
LG 58
Electric Counterpoint III
Reich's
1987
prerecorded track
last piece in the series of counterpoints
12 guitars
hook- less than the whole
goal directed tonality
different approach to harmony and complexity
short melodic ideas
syncopation with accents
thought composed
diatonic
ostinato
LG 55
Cage
Sonatas and interludes
sonata V
1946-48
16 sonatas
4 groups
prepared piano
AABB
linear focues
no clear meter
dissonant ending
worldly sounds
Chapter 62
American Experimentalists
mid 20th
Innovative
new scales and harmonies
Various sound sources
virtuosic instrumental/vocal
electronic music
Henery Cowell
1897-1965
Asian instruments with Western ensembles
Iran
India
Japan
foreign scales
prepared piano
plucking piano
group notes, played with fist or elbow
Harry Partch
1901-1974
microtones
scale with 43 microtones in an octave
built and adapted instruments to play it
John Cage
1912-1992
born in LA
Taught by Cowell
1938- prepared piano
Indereminacy
aleatoric
rolled dice to decide music
chance music
4'33"
questioned the nature and music
the role of silence
George Crumb
1929
retired in 1999
used stuff from song cycle ancient voices of children
unusual vocal/instruments
Chapter 64
12 tone music rejection
minimalism
less structure needed
scientific stable harmonies
process music- repeat of a few notes over and over and elaborating
technology
looping music
phases music
change speed
Steve Reich
1936
Juilliard
wanted to write tonal music
cultures
West African drumming
Gamelan
Jewish
polyrhythmic
multiply meters
west african drumming
Chapter 52
not revolutionary
break from tardition
Expressionism
dissonance
atonality
German
Psyhe - Edward Munch
Music
big and extreme
Arnold Schoenberg
1874-1951
teacher in vienna
12 tone composition
USC california 1933 due to WWII
UCLA later
periods
Post-romantic
atonal-expressionist
twelve-tone