Insert white noise here. Because you obviously stopped listening æons
ago.
Sound Mass (Sonorism) School (filters, subtractive synthesis, high
pass, low pass, band pass, notch filter)
Sonic Exuviation - thick texture giving way to thin texture: a type
of orchestrational juxtaposition
3rd stream - coined by Gunther Schuller
2nd Viennese School: Berg: romantic, looking backward | Schoenberg
romantic, looking forward | Webern : sparse
Tchaikovsky's 4-part texture: 2 melodies- one in strings, one in
WW | harmony in brass | Bassline in Bass instruments
| Crumb |
vs. |
Schwantner |
| focuses on extended techniques |
"pedal-down orchestration" |
| harmonics |
instrumentalists called on to sing |
| Penderecki |
vs. |
Ligeti |
| indeterminacy |
aleatoric |
| Band |
vs. |
Wind Ensemble
Fred Finnell - 20 September 1952 |
| few original works |
smaller instrumentation |
| bad transcriptions |
standard original repertoire |
| *lots* of doubling |
1 on a part |
Indeterminacy: a choice is made by performer
Aleatoric Composition: the composer notates the final outcome
| Listening |
| year |
composer |
title/mvmt |
identifying properties |
| 1850 |
Wagner |
Lohengrin - Overture |
|
| 1878 |
Brahms |
Symphony No. 2/I |
|
| 1886 |
Saint-Saëns |
Symphony No. 3/opening |
|
| 1888 |
Tchaikovsky |
Symphony No. 5/IV |
|
| 1897 |
Richard Strauss |
Don Quixote/Opening |
|
| 1905 |
Debussy |
La Mer, I |
|
| 1909 |
Schöenberg |
Five Orchestral Pieces/Farben |
|
| 1912 |
Ravel |
Daphnis and Chloe/opening |
|
| 1918 |
Ives |
The Housatonic at Stockbridge |
sonic exuviation |
| 1920 |
Stravinsky |
Symphonies of Wind Instruments |
|
| 1922 |
Berg |
Wozzeck/excerpt |
whole-tone section |
| 1934 |
Hindemith |
Symphony Mathis der Maler/I |
|
| 1944 |
Bartók |
Concerto for Orchestra/III |
|
| 1957 |
Stravinsky |
Agon/I-VI |
transitional work between neoclassicism & serialism |
| chamber treatment of orchestra, smaller textures |
| 1961 |
Ligeti |
Atmospheres |
Ligeti |
| 1966 |
Penderecki |
De Natura Sonoris No. 1 |
Penderecki |
| 1972 |
Druckman |
Windows |
Juxtaposition |
| 1977 |
Crumb |
Star Child/Intro: Desolato |
|
| 1977 |
Crumb |
Star Child/Musica Apocalyptica |
|
| 1977 |
Schwantner |
...and the mountains rising nowhere |
pedal-down, textures building upwards |
| 1981 |
Corigliano |
Promenade Overture |
tribute to Haydn's farewell symphony (enter vs. exit)
retrograde of Vn ending in Tpt.
Williams-esque bress fanfare
|
| 1986 |
Adams |
Short Ride on a Fast Machine |
woodblock throughout |
Find a pistol. Look down the barrel to verify that it is loaded. Pull
the trigger. Thank you.