Grout Chapter 34 - Postwar Crosscurrents
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Leonard Bernstein | 1910-1990, 20C Classical/Film/Broadway American composer, West Side Story, On the Town |
| Oliver Messiaen | 1908-1992, 20C French composer and organist, very religious themes, bird calls, harmonically static/meditative, "Quartet for the End of Time" |
| Modes of Limited Transposition | Collection of notes that do not change when transposed by certain intervals, i.e. octatonic, whole tone, no pull for resolution |
| Benjamin Britten | 1913-1976, 20C English composer, wrote "Peter Grimes" opera and "War Requiem" (he was a pacifist) |
| Peter Grimes | Britten, first English opera since Purcell |
| Samuel Barber | 1910-1981, 20C American composer, committed to tonality, used 12 tone rows in a tonal framework, "Adagio for Strings" and "Hermit Songs" |
| Alberto Ginastera | 1916-1983, 20C Argentinian composer, nationalism and international styles, third stream composer |
| Third Stream | Crossing/merging jazz and classical styles, Ginastera |
| Michael Tippett | 1905-1998, 20C English composer, synthesis of Javanese gamelan, English renaissance music, non-western styles |
| Darmstadt Group | 20C Summer meetings in Germany, discussed new ideas about music, Webern was leader of these new trends, Pierre Boulez, Stockhausen, Babbitt |
| Total Serialism | Serialism of durations, intensities, timbres, etc. in addition to pitch, Babbitt, Boulez |
| Milton Babbitt | 1916, leading serial composer and theorist in the United States, "Third String Quartet" |
| Pierre Boulez | 1st European composer to write a total serialism work, "Structures" |
| Elliott Carter | 1908, non-serial American composer, experimented with rhythms, metric modulation, virtuosic parts |
| Metric Modulation | Changing from one meter/tempo to another using common denominators |
| John Cage | 1912-1992, American composer, used prepared piano, stretched music as far as possible, explored new sounds, "Imaginary Landscape No. 3" and "Sonatas and Interludes" (for prepared piano) |
| Chance music | Composers leave some decisions up to chance, random ways to decide which lines to play (i.e. toss a coin), "Music of Changes" by Cage |
| Indeterminacy | Composer leaves some decisions unspecified, "4'33"" by Cage |
| George Crumb | 1929, 20C composer, used lots of unique instruments, toy piano/musical saw/harmonica/mandolin, "Black Angels" (string quartet=electronically amplified for dream-like atmosphere) |
| Musique Concrete | Using recorded sound, 1st work= "Symphony for One Man" by Pierre Henry |
| Gesang de Junglinge (Song of the Youth) | Stockhausen, use both recorded (musique concrete) and electronic sounds |
| Poeme electronic (Electronic Poem) | Varese, electronic and recorded noises |
| Philomel | Babbitt, recorded music + live soprano |
| Iannis Xenakis | 1922-2001, Greek composer, mathematical and architectural composer, "Metastaseis" (each string player gets a unique part) |
| Krzysztof Penderecki | 1933, Polish composer, textural composer, graphic notation, invented new notional devices (i.e. player chooses one of four patterns), clusters, "Threnody: To the Victims of Hiroshima" (52 string instruments) |
| Gyorgy Ligeti | 1923, Hungarian composer, music is constantly in motion, harmonically and melodically static, used micropolyphony=canons moving at differing tempos, "Lux aeterna" |
| Witold Lutoslawski | 1913-1994, Polish composer, used indeterminacy |
| Quotation | Using sections/influences of existing music in a new work, "Hymnen" by Stockhausen |
| Collage | Multiple quotations forming a new work, "Black Angels" by Crumb quotes "dies irae" and Schubert's "Death and the Maiden" |
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