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Musicianship Composers
20th Century 12-tone,Serialism,Minimalism,Avant-Garde, Sound Mass composers
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Undergraduate 2
04/28/2011

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Term
John Adams
Definition
Post-Minimalism
Writes for traditional ensembles
Faster Harmonic Rhythm
Melody

Pieces:
"Short ride in a fast machine"
Term
Louis Andriessen
Definition
Dutch
Minimalism
Jazz

Pieces:
"The Style"
Term
Milton Babbitt
Definition
Integral Serialism
"Who cares if you listen"

Pieces:
"Semi-simple Variations"
Term
Bela Bartok
Definition
Hungary
Symmetry
Nationalist
Folk Music

Pieces:
Term
Alban Berg
Definition
12 Tone
Student of Schoenberg
Tonal Allusions
Quaotation

Pieces:
Violin Concerto
Wozzeck
Term
John Cage
Definition
Chance Music(Aleatoric)
Consults the I Ching,
Prepared Piano

Pieces:
4'33"
Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano
Term
Henry Cowell
Definition
String Piano
Tone Cluster

Piece:
The Banshee
Term
Claude Debussy
Definition
France
Impressionism/Symbolism
Planing Technique
Extended Tertian Harmonies

Pieces:
Claire de Lune
Nocturnes
Term
Phillip Glass
Definition
Collaborated a lot.
Minimalism
Formed the "Phillip Glass Ensemble"
Simple materials, arpeggios,scales
Uses Additive Rhythms

Pieces:
"Music in 12 parts"
"Einstein on the beach"
Term
Gyorgy Ligeti
Definition
Hungary
Sound Mass
Micropolyphony

Pieces:
Disorder(Etudes)
Athmospheres
Term
Charles Ives
Definition
American
Collage Technique
Experimental

Pieces:
The Cage
3 Places in New England
Term
Olivier Messiaen
Definition
France
Bird Calls
Additive Rhythm
Uses Modes of Limited Transposition.

Pieces:
Quartet for the end of time
Term
Steve Reich
Definition
Minimalism
Process Piece
Phasing

Pieces:
Tehillim
Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ
Term
Arnold Schoenberg
Definition
12 Tone
Sprechstimme
Hexachordal combinatoriality

Pieces:
Pierrot
Term
Igor Stravinski
Definition
Russia
Neo-Classical
Changing meter
Syncopation
Asymmetrical Meters
Polytonality(2 or more keys)
Ostinado

Pieces:
Rite of Spring
Requem Canticles
Term
Edgar Varese
Definition
France/America
Percussion
Experimentalist
"Sound Mass"

Pieces:
Ionisation
Term
Anton Weber
Definition
2nd Viennese School
Pointillism
Short Pieces
Symmetry
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