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Module 3
Music History 3
25
Music
Undergraduate 3
10/29/2012

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Term
Discuss
 the
 principal
 political
 events
 in
 the
 following
 countries
 during
 the
 1930s
 
and
 1940s:
 the
 Soviet
 Union,
 Germany
 and
 the
 German-­‐occupied
 lands,
 and
 the
United
 States.
Definition
Term
Lady MacBeth Scandal
Definition
Too sexual

Stalin hates this opera
Not socialist realism-
Division of classes
Sergey represents the working class- not morally correct
banned for many years after
Schos toned it down later
Term
prepared piano
Definition
One that is manipulated- screws, paper, woodblocks
Term
quartet for the end of Time by Messian
Definition
Wrote it in a concentration camp- Gorlitz
-was an organist
-was mystical catholic
Nature vs. Heaven
Rhythmic and harmonic ostinatos would take 4 hours for them to line up again
(clarinet and violin-bird song
cello and piano- rhythmic ostinatos)
Hailed as a war hero after his return
Term
Social Realism
Definition
Soviet Union
music for everyone
made the Union look really good
equality for all
Bordering propoganda
How things are depicted- how the working class is depicted- their struggle is depicted with realism
Term
Populism
Definition
Right after the New Deal is put into place
Music for everyone
Using folk ideas
in the States
Federal Music Project- helps musicians
Term
Neue Sachlichkeit
Definition
New Objectivity (post expressionism)
reaction against expressionism
representative
static
quiet
smooth
representative
miniature
cool and cold

Hindemith
Term
Total serialism
Definition
Tone Rows- not only pitches, but rhythms and durations, the form itself, and instrumentation
serialism to the MAX
Term
Aleatoric music
Definition
John Cage
Chance music
Feldman, Earl Brown, Yoko Ono
Term
Stochastic Music
Definition
Same overall effect regardless of what order smaller events occur
math
Talked about Xenakis (coined the term) - mathmatician and composer and Architech (1950s/60s)
Term
Sound Mass Composition
Definition
Penderiski- Threnody: to the Victims of hiroshima
compositions based on blocks of sound (harmonic/texture)
Term
Gebrauchsmusik and how Hindenmith relates
Definition
Music for ameteurs
Hindenmith is sympathetic to the working class and all people
Music to sing and to play for everyone
Term
Square root form
Definition
phrase=2+3+5+8=18
18*18=324
Term
Major figures in the development of total serialism
Definition
Messian
Leibowitz
Term
Figures of the Drumstadt School
Definition
Boulez, Maderna, Nano, Stockhousen
Term
Figures of the New York School
Definition
John Cage, Yoko Ono, Morton Feldman, Earl Brown
Term
Studio D'Essai (Paris)
Definition
Pierre Schaeffer, Henry
(Xenakis works here for a while)
(stockhousen and Boulez are in and out)
"Musiqu Concrete" philosophy - all sounds are taken from real life (non-musical)
Change name to GRM later
Term
Studio for Elektronicshe Musik (Germany)
Definition
Werner Meyer Eppler and Herbert Eimert
Philosophy- All sounds are computer generated
"Electronicshe Musik"
Term
Columbia Princeton Music Center (NYC)
Definition
Ussachevsky and Luening
Babbit later gets involved
"tape music"
Term
Interdeterminacy
Definition
Any part of a musical work is indeterminate if it is chosen by chance, or if its performance is not precisely specified
Term
Darmstadt Ferienkurse
Definition
summer course on new music in Germany
Term
Entartete Musik
Definition
Degenerate music (German: Entartete Musik) was a label applied in the 1930s by the Nazi government in Germany to certain forms of music that it considered to be harmful or decadent.
Against Serialism and Jazz
Term
Federal Music Project
Definition
Government agency that created jobs for musicians
Term
Gebrauchsmusik
Definition
essentially meaning “utility music,” for music that exists not only for its own sake, but which was composed for some specific, identifiable purpose
Hindenmith
Term
Groupe de Recherches
Musicales
Definition
GRM- changed the name from Studio D'essai to GRM
Musique Concrete
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