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Unit 10 Mind Map (Chapter 62 (Early experimentation (John Cage (Sonata V…

- - - - Combined Asian instruments with Western ensembles
      - Foreign scales with western chords
      - precursor to prepared pianos
      - Tone clusters for piano
      - Directly plucking piano strings
    - - Proponent of micro tones
      - Scale with 43 micro tones
      - Built instruments
      - Focus melody and timbres not on harmony
      - Adapted instruments from other cultures
      - Chamber bowls , gongs, gourd trees
    - - Cowells mentor
      - Interested in non western scales
      - Invented prepared piano
      - Role of silence
      - Eternally questioning artist
      - Very experimental
      - Sonata V (Lg 55)
        
        16 Sonatas in 4 groups
        
        Written for prepared piano
    - - Affinity for poetry of Lorca
      - Used that poetry in his song cycle
      - Creates new sonorities
      - Unusual vocal / Instrumental effects
      - Turns ordinary instruments into extra ordinary
      - Caballito Negro (Lg 56)
        
        Poetry by Lorca
        
        Atonal
        
        Last of three songs in Crumbs book of madrigals
        
        A-B-A Form
        
        Scored for soprano, percussion, and flute/piccolo
        
        Extended Techniques
        
        Ex.-- Piccolo flutter tongue, Whispering , whinnying
- - - - Chamber work for guitar and Tape
      - Very interesting approach to harmony
      - Last in a series called counterpoint
      - The "Hook"
- - - - Edward munch
    - - Crazy melodic leaps
      - Hyper expressive harmonies
      - Instruments in extreme ranges
    - - Taught in Vienna
      - Rejected tonality
      - Composing with twelve tones
      - Three compositional periods
      - Pierrot Lunaire (Lg 43)
        
        Set for female vocalist and chamber ensemble
        
        Song cycle on 21 poems by Giraud
        
        Sprechstimme
        
        Klangfarbenmelodie
        
        Number 18, Moonfleck
        
        Fugues with canons for accompaniment