musical drama with orchestra and voices;

without sets, costumes, and acting

emphasis on mechanical, motor-like rhythm

*Stravinsky's Dance of the Adolescents*

emphasis on excess of emotion by angular melody, dissonant harmony, unusual rhythm, odd use of instruments, distorted form.

vocal technique: "sprectstimme" <--talk/sing combo

*Shoenberg's Prayer to Pierre*

the use of national melodies and styles in classical music

*Copland's Hoedown from RODEO*

music of random sounds and actions inwhich composer avoids control of all aspects of the music

*Cage's Totem Ancestor*

All sound is music (4'33")

lead to Golden Gate playing on the bridge cables, Construction Symphony

relied on chance; aleatory; zen

Totem Ancestor; prepared piano

MELODY: a series of varied pitches w. varied rhythms

HARMONY:tones sounding together

RHYTHM:underlying pulse of the music

TEXTURE: the instruments used

FORM: underlying structure of the music

music with an unremitting pulse and fast, virtuosic passages, & without message, tension, or contrast, based on the slow development of one melodic or rhythmic idea

*Glass's Dance 5*

music which incorporates 20th century styles but returns to forms and genres used in past eras, particularly the Romantic era: emphasis on melody and a sense of tonality

*Larry Bell's Invention #11*

egomaniac, liar, cheat, used people, only good to Cosima

1st to stretch tonality <soap operas>

brought excessive emotion to romanticism, overdid it

*4opera cycle RING OF THE NEBELUNGS*