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Unit 10 (Listening Guides (LG 43: Pierrot Lunaire (The Moonfleck (Harshly…

- - - - materials inserted between strings
      - Varied timbres
  - - - Harshly dissonant
      - Rondeau text
      - Fugues, canons in accompaniement
      - Pierrot disturbed by a white spot on his black jacket - cant get off but turns out to be moonlight
    - - Bizarre and macabre
      - Poems about Pierrot - clown and poet
  - - - Piccolo flutter tongue
      - Soprano whinny like a horse
      - glissandos
  - - - 12 guitars with pre-recorded tracks
- - - - Redefine the new
      - Next step in music evolution
      - Expressionism
        
        Break from tradition
        
        Dissonance is ok
        
        Reject tonality
    - - Psyche
        
        Edward Munch
      - Music
        
        Hyper-expressive harmonies
        
        Wide melodic leaps
        
        Instruments in their extreme ranges
    - - Active teacher in Vienna
        
        Berg and Webern
      - Rejection of tonality
      - method of composing with 12 tones
      - Southern Cal due to WWII
      - UCLA later
      - Three compositional periods
        
        post-romantic
        
        atonal-expressionist
        
        12-tone
  - - - New scales and harmonies
      - Various cultures
      - Use of various sound sources
      - Highly virtuosic instrumental or vocal efforts
    - - Henry Cowell
        
        Combined asian instrumetns with Western ensembles
        
        Foreign scales with western chords
        
        Precursor to prepared piano
        
        tone clusters for piano
        
        play with forearm, fist, palm
        
        Tiger
        
        Pluck the strings directly
      - Harry Partch
        
        Proponant of microtones
        
        43 tones to a octave
        
        Built instruments for it
        
        Focus on melody and timbre
        
        Adapted indian and african instruments to fit tuning
    - - Born in LA
      - Early interest in non-western scales
      - Cowell mentor
      - Invented the prepared piano
      - Indeterminacy, aleatoric, and chance music
      - Explored roll of silence
      - Questioning guy
    - - Retired from composition faculty of the university of Penn
      - Poetry of Lorca
        
        Ancient Voices of Children used in his four books of madrigals
        
        Unusual vocal and instrumental effects
        
        Creates new sonorities
  - - - Rejection of 12 tone
      - Scientific way to approach stable harmonies was found in process music
        
        Process Music- a few notes that keep repeating with elaboration
      - Developed through tech into phase music
        
        Record snippet then loop
        
        Changing speeds cause phase changes
    - - NYC
      - Studied modernist composition at Juilliard
      - Wanted to write tonal music
      - Pioneered process music
      - Other cultures
        
        West African Drumming and Balinese Gamelan
      - Judaic heritage central to many works