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38 Cards in this Set
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Varese
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He pushed electronic music and influenced the kind of music we hear today
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poem electronique
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one of the masterpieces of electronic music
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lonisation
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composed by Varese. It is the first peice written just for percussion
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Cage
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and american composer who wrote music for prepared piano
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Crumb
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and american composer who was influenced by Asian music and would quote Chopin in his music
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Black Angels
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a piece for an electric string quartet
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Terry Riley
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Wrote the influential piece in C. This piece influenced other composers which in turn influenced the dance and techno music we hear today
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Steve Reich
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he became fascinated with "phase shifting" 1st worked with tape loops. then studied in African Drumming in Africa. Came back and wrote in style that used overlapping ostinatos
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Philip Glass
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uses simple harmonic progressions and studied Indian Music
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John Adams
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a 2nd generation minimalist composer. his music is more chromatic than the 1st generation
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Ligeti
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His musci has no clear pitches or chords just a cloud of sound. There is also no real sense of meter or rythem
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Lutoslawski
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A polish composer that used ad lib to create his sound mass compositions
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Xenakis
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a greek composer who uses math equations, such as a Brownian motion to create his compositions
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Jerry Goldsmith
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among the most respected film composer. He was one of the first to use electronic music in film
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John williams
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a filmcomposer who popularized film music
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James Horner
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he has the ability to write heavily intense musci as well as very calming music
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Christopher Franke
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Successfully merged electonic musci with the standard orchestra for Bablyon 5
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Melody
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complex. the disintergration o ftraditional melody. A sugestion of melody without clear tunes or using brief melodic fragments
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new scales
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pentatonic, whole tone, octation and quarter tone scales
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harmony
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dissoncance and consonance are relative matters. The resoloution is not from dissonance to consonance but form sharp dissoncance to a softer dissonance
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rytherm
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more complex
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chromaticism
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freedom to use all 12 pitches of the chromaic scale
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The Secondary Viennese School
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arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern and Alban Berg
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Schoenberg
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Created the 12 tone system of composition. Composed Pierrot lunaire
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Sprechstimme
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A combination of singing and speaking
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Pierrot Lunaire
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uses the vocal tehnique Sprechstimme throughout the piece
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Webern
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His music is really short and condensed. His symphonies are only about 7 minutes long
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Berg
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Composed Wozzek
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Debussy
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his tone colors avoid heavy sonorities. He used a subtle and mysterious shade fo sound. He created the musical style later called impressionism
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Stravinsky
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wrote 3 ballets: Firebird, Petrushka, The rite of spring. His writing style is rythmic.
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The Rite of Spring
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is a ballet using a large orchestra. The peice begins eith a melody played by the bassoon in the highest part of its range
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Ives
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The 1st original american composer. He quoted American folk songs in his music
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Copland
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Composed music that truely sounds American which was later copied and used for western TV shows. He wrote the ballet Applachian Spring for Martha Graham about a pioneer celebration in Pennsylvania
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Barber
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An american composer whos Adagio for Strings was the most performed piece by an American composer
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Saxhorn
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an over the shoulder brass instrument used in brass bands in the 1800s
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John Philip Sousa
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A major American Composer who wrote marches
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Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Wrote music for concert band to make it a serious ensemble like the orchestra is today. They also used English folk music in their composition
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Arvo Part
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An Estonian composer who uses the Renaissance period style and uses silence in his music
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