Final Exam Format

I. 10 listening (list provided) composer/title + period

II. Choice of 2 binary terms: justify Examples:

Baroque/Classical Concerto/Symphony

Chant/Organum

III. 2 Objective SectionsQuestions from reading and lecture

IV. 2 Essay Questions

A. Composers B. Works   Schoenberg Appalachian Spring Brahms Un di felice Leoninus Mazurka in B-flat Liszt Tristan und Isolde: Liebestod Beethoven Aguns Dei from the Pope

Marcellus Mass Adams Voiles (Sails) Schubert Symphony #5: 3rd Movement Mahler Trancendental Etude: Wild Hunt

Piano Sonata #2 (3rd mvmt.) Pierre Boulez

Song of the Youths Karlheinz Stockhausen

Music of Changes John Cage

Six Pianos Steve Reich

String Quartet #6 (finale) George Rochberg

Society for the Presentation Society for the Presentation of Avant-Garde Musicof Avant-Garde Music

My what an interesting example of ____________.

It sort of reminds me of _________.

•Total Serialism

•Computer and Electronic Music

•Neo-Baroque or Post- Modernism

•Aleatory (chance) Music

•Minimalism •Ellen Zwillich Concerto Grosso

•John Adams, Short Ride in a Fast Machine

• Edgar Varese, Poème électronique

•Arnold Schoenberg, Trio from Suite for Piano

•John Cage, 4’ 33”

I. Total Serialism

Pierre BoulezMilton Babbitt

Total Serialists:

“Schoenberg didn’t go far enough!”

Anton Webern

Sator Arepo tenet opera rotasThe Planter Arepo holds the works of his hoe

Pitch

Duration

Dynamics

And this is a good idea because _______??1. Creates Work rich with musical relationships

And this is a good idea because _______??

2. Autonomy

3. Allies Music with Science

4. Determinacy = Composer Triumphant

1. Creates Work rich with musical relationships

Composer-Performer-Listener

My what an interesting example of ____________.

It sort of reminds me of _________.

•Total Serialism

•Computer and Electronic Music

•Neo-Baroque or Post- Modernism

•Aleatory (chance) Music

•Minimalism •Ellen Zwillich Concerto Grosso

•John Adams, Short Ride in a Fast Machine

• Edgar Varese, Poème électronique

•Arnold Schoenberg, Trio from Suite for Piano

•John Cage, 4’ 33”

II. Computer & Electronic Music

Edgard Varèse/Morton Subotnick/Karlheinz Stockhausen

And this is a good idea because _______??

1. Ultimate extension of Determinacy

2. Let’s explore timbre rather than pitch organization

Musique concrète vs. Electronic Music

Composer-Performer-ListenerX

My what an interesting example of ____________.

It sort of reminds me of _________.

•Total Serialism

•Computer and Electronic Music

•Neo-Baroque or Post- Modernism

•Aleatory (chance) Music

•Minimalism •Ellen Zwillich Concerto Grosso

•John Adams, Short Ride in a Fast Machine

• Edgar Varese, Poème électronique

•Arnold Schoenberg, Trio from Suite for Piano

•John Cage, 4’ 33”

III. Aleatory (Chance) Music

John Cage

And this is a good idea because _______??

2. Broadens Definition of Music emancipate noise

prepared piano

1. Reaction against Determinacy

3. Interrogates: What is a composer/work/performance?

4. Composers’ task: Create interesting sounds? orCreate contexts in which sounds can be heard as

musically interesting?

My what an interesting example of ____________.

It sort of reminds me of _________.

•Total Serialism

•Computer and Electronic Music

•Neo-Baroque or Post- Modernism

•Aleatory (chance) Music

•Minimalism •Ellen Zwillich Concerto Grosso

•John Adams, Short Ride in a Fast Machine

• Edgar Varese, Poème électronique

•Arnold Schoenberg, Trio from Suite for Piano

•John Cage, 4’ 33”

IV. Minimalism Process music/Pattern Music

Steve Reich, Philip Glass, John Adams

And this is a good idea because _______??

1. Repudiates brash dissonance of modernism

2. Elevates time over pitch organization

3. Trance Music (reconceives music as experience not structure)

links to Techno and Rave

My what an interesting example of ____________.

It sort of reminds me of _________.

•Total Serialism

•Computer and Electronic Music

•Neo-Baroque or Post- Modernism

•Aleatory (chance) Music

•Minimalism •Ellen Zwillich Concerto Grosso

•John Adams, Short Ride in a Fast Machine

• Edgar Varese, Poème électronique

•Arnold Schoenberg, Trio from Suite for Piano

•John Cage, 4’ 33”

V. Post-Modernism

George Rochberg, William Bolcolm

And this is a good idea because _______??

1. Just Communicate

2. The Post-Modern Dilemmaprogress, innovation, originality seem impossible

Wither Music?

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What will be Music?