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MUSIC WITH LOGIC (Musical Expressionism (LG 43: "Pierrot Lunaire"…

- - - - • Break from tradition
        
        • Dissonance does not have to resolve to consonance.
        
        • Reject tonality (atonality)
  - - - Rejection of tonality, key
      - Dissonance is STANDARD
      - Dissonance can be the end of the piece
      - MAXIMUM tension
      - No need for consonance
      - Method developed- 12 tone method
  - - - Composer, conductor, teacher in Vienna
      - Students Berg and Webern
      - Rejection of tonality
      - “method of composing with twelve tones”
      - USC- Southern California (1933) due to WW II --> UCLA
      - 1940 US Citizen
      - Three compositional periods
        
        Atonal - expressionist
        
        12-tone
        
        Post Romantic
- - - - Wanted to write tonal music, pioneered minimalist music
      - Studied West African drumming and Balinese gamelan
      - Judaic heritage central to many works
      - Born in NYC, studied modernist composition then Julliard
  - - - Phase music later by live musicians
      - Music Speed slowed
      - Several copies played simultaneously
      - Music recorded on loop
      - Developed through technology into phase music
      - Process Music- a few notes repeating over and over and often elaborating
      - A new, also scientific way to approach stable harmonies was found in process music
      - Rejection of 12 tone music
      - The scientific nature of serialism appealed to some