ᴛʜᴇ ᴛɪᴍᴇs ᴛʜᴇʏ ᴀʀᴇ ᴀ-ᴄʜᴀɴɢɪɴ' - 1961-63
84 - 86
as 1960 progress, "change train" pick up speed
as 1960 progress, "change train" pick up speed
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Classical Music
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1961 - Francis Perulenc's Gloria premier
neo Classical - adhere to older composition values
died in native France in 1963
African Americans - Hale Smith, William Grant
Still, Ulysses Kay
Kay's Fantasy Variations (1963)
use tone clusters, polychords, whole tone melodies
reveals theme in the final section
John Cage - philosophical leader of avant garde in US
lectures, gave speeches, artist's clubs, publish articles
1961 - excerpts gathered into Silence
publish 5 other books
19c - symphony, 20c- innovation
Dmitri Shostakovich - known exclusively for symphonies
1961 - Symphony No.12 - patriotic, dedicated to Lenin
1962 - Symphony No. 13 - based on Babi Yar poems
by dissident poet Yevgeny Yevushenko, tells of anti
Semetic massacre by Nazis during Ukraine occupation,
Soviet's failure to erect monument to victims
dissonant passages, bitonal sections, Jewish melodies
audience reaction favorable, official reaction not
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Momento - premier in 1962
no electronic instruments (other than 2 electric organs)
percussion, trumpets, trombones, 4 small choruses,
soprano soloist
control: brands of percussion instruments,where and how
to strike drums, platforms of specific heights, scale
drawing of stage, how microphones are used
no control: different sections performed in different orders
text in multiple languages, no language
sing specific and unspecified pitched,whisper, shout, speak,
clap, shuffle, babble incoherently
series of percussion instruments from cardboard tubes
avant garde - innovation for sake of innovation
1961 - Francis Perulenc's Gloria premier
neo Classical - adhere to older composition values
died in native France in 1963
African Americans - Hale Smith, William Grant
Still, Ulysses Kay
Kay's Fantasy Variations (1963)
use tone clusters, polychords, whole tone melodies
reveals theme in the final section
John Cage - philosophical leader of avant garde in US
lectures, gave speeches, artist's clubs, publish articles
1961 - excerpts gathered into Silence
publish 5 other books
19c - symphony, 20c- innovation
Dmitri Shostakovich - known exclusively for symphonies
1961 - Symphony No.12 - patriotic, dedicated to Lenin
1962 - Symphony No. 13 - based on Babi Yar poems
by dissident poet Yevgeny Yevushenko, tells of anti
Semetic massacre by Nazis during Ukraine occupation,
Soviet's failure to erect monument to victims
dissonant passages, bitonal sections, Jewish melodies
audience reaction favorable, official reaction not
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Momento - premier in 1962
no electronic instruments (other than 2 electric organs)
percussion, trumpets, trombones, 4 small choruses,
soprano soloist
control: brands of percussion instruments,where and how
to strike drums, platforms of specific heights, scale
drawing of stage, how microphones are used
no control: different sections performed in different orders
text in multiple languages, no language
sing specific and unspecified pitched,whisper, shout, speak,
clap, shuffle, babble incoherently
series of percussion instruments from cardboard tubes
avant garde - innovation for sake of innovation
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