MUS 203: Connell EXAM 3
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Philosophical Ideals - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅commercial vs idealistic, popular is
commercial and not art, they want it to be art,
Traditional and Indigenous Sources - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅americana composers, use of
folk sounds in music
Experimentation and Innovation - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅result of avant garde
Pastiche - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅humor
Dissonance - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅strength
Charles Ives - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅rhythmic freedoms, used certain tensions in songs as
strengths, musician and businessman, instantly recognizable, indigenous music
Henry Cowell - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅World music, Extended instrumental techniques,
New Music Quarterly, BANSHEE
New Music Quarterly - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅journal that cowell produced, supported by
ives
Lou Harrison - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅influenced by asian music, pacific rim composer,
western instruments, disciple of ives, edited many of his scores, pullitzer prize
Nadia Boulanger - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅well known teacher in paris that copland studied
with
Aaron Copland - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅studied with boulanger, inspired by jazz, folk, and
western, melody and constant sounds, career came out of the depression
, Roy Harris - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅Symphony #3
Elliot Carter - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅metric modulation
George Gershwin - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅Crossed the popular / classical music divide,
Rhapsody in Blue
Modernity - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅disconvergence of different styles of sounds, never
heard before, new technologies, electronics, can noise be sound?
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅official gov't institution
founded in 1965, support artistic creation → composer is now a specialist, he is not
bound by audiences and is shaped by a creative process
Maximum Rational Control - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅composer is not only the creative mind,
but the person who controls every single aspect of it
Serialism - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅tonal system: every note in a song is in relation to the
tonic
New way of organizing pitch (in a series) - pitch remains solid, but other things are
altered
Minimum Rational Control - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅improvisation, indeterminancy
Improvisation - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅composer is passing on control to the performer
Indeterminancy - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅music events are determined by chance
operations
Edgar Varese - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅Interested in composing music spacially.
Not to think of music in terms of melody, but in terms of energy (sound masses).
When the energy collides, it produces an effect.
Idea of timbre.
Music in 4 dimensions.
Pioneer of electronic tape music
Poeme Electronique - ANSWER ✅✅✅✅1958, the sounds were created from scratch,
no one had been able to do something like that at the time, premiered at World
Exhibition in brussels, synchronized music and lights, 425 speakers throughout the
room with lights