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1
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arnold schoenberg when

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1874-1951

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schoenberg who

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austrian jewish composer

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schoenberg where

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vienna, then us to escape nazis

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schoenberg type of music

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atonal, modernist; “abandoning tonality” around 1908

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schoenberg accomps

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one of first works of atonal music + 12 tone composition

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schoenberg influence + type of music

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german late romantic composers (name sounds german) > chromatic + innovative

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anton webern when

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1883-1945 - “ant”, ends in 3 as in 3 letters; 45, webern, war

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webern original career

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conductor

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webern school

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second viennese - vebern viennese

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webern musical belief

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repetition unnecessary - unlike a web??

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webern literary term

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aphorism - short, like his name

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webern music traits

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few notes, lots of silence, disjunct melodies

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webern techniques music used

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harmonics, col legno bowing “wacky webern” vebern violin … ext techniques

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atonal music

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no rules of harmony; avoidance of pitch ctr

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expressionism where when

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germany scandinavia, 1880-1925
expressive: long = later in cent; even nbrs e and e

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expressionism traits

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intense emotion, isolation, madness, deranged psych state; reaction to impressionism and realism

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expressionism painting chars

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distortions of color, form; unease, altered reality

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expressionist subj matter

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war, poverty, disease, inhumanity

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neoclassicism

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drawing inspo from classical pd

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pizzicato

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breh

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21
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ext technique

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also breh

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pierre boulez when

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1925-2016
25 year old baker
2016 6 letters in first and last names

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boulez which school

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darmstadt “boulez darmstadt energy”

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boulez advocated for

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“rational” aesthetic “pierrational”

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boulez big innovation term

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integral serialism/control music “pierre was the stone who was integral in serialism”

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boulez characteristic

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abstract, non-representational

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boulez big texture

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pointillism

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integral/total serialism

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serial procedure applied to all aspects of music instead of just pitch > pitch, rhythm, timbre, dynamics

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pointillism

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seemingly random but actually carefully oranized “points” of sound, each isolated in a separate range and timbre; no conventional melody

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30
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john cage when

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1912-1992 - he was “caged” in the early 1900s? and then his whole name is 8 letters for 80 years living

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31
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john cage style

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avant garde

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32
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john cage what

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composer, philosopher, author, lecturer, visual artist

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33
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john cage teacher + influences

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schoenberg, non-western culture, percussion, indonesian gamelan, ZEN BUDDHISM

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34
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cage composed for type of ensemble + called what

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percussion ensemble; all sound music of future

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35
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western percussion only ensemble started when

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post 1920

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36
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cage extended technique

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prepared piano

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37
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cage new type of music

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aleatory/indeterminacy/chance music > he wasnt “caged” in by norms

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38
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cage new performance type

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happening

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39
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cage 4’33”

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silent piece

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40
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4’33” when

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1952

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41
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percussion ensemble cage quote

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“all sounds acceptable to composer of percussion music”

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42
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prepared piano

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inserting objects between piano strings according to composer instructions

43
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aleatoric music/indeterminacy/chance music

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intentional intro of random elements during composition and/or performance of music > not predictable to composer (they flip a coin or something and the performer does what they want) or performer (they make mistakes sometimes); allowance of any sounds, even accidental

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chance operations

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composing randomly > flipping a coin to compose; structure and randomness

45
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graphic notation

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unconventional written manner of conveying musical ideas > seems more visual than musical; encourages improv

46
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happening

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multiple forms of art simultaneously performed without coordination; multiple pieces performed simultaneously

47
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electroacoustic music originated when

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after ww2 - ww2 ended, the tape began

48
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electroacoustic music

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any natural sound is a sound object; manipulation of these to make new timbres

49
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musique concrete

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music based on natural/real world sounds

50
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4 manipulations

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filtering out, overdub, manipulate speed, sound reversal

51
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filtering out

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physically cutting tape

52
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overdubbing

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combining diff sounds

53
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pure electronic music

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construction and precise control of timbre of musical sounds instead of using natural sounds

54
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additive synthesis

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combination of pure sine waves for artificial overtones

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subtractive synthesis

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components of complex sound where specific components are filtered out to produce new timbres

56
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karlheinz stockhausen when

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1928-2007 stockhouse like what was needed in great depression (1928); 07 like almost heinz (57)

57
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stockhausen significant accomps

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first examples of pure elec music; first pub score of elec music

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stockhausen gesang der junglinge

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combo concrete sounds and pure electronic sounds with sine tones and filtered noise from subtract synthesis

59
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gesang der junglinge when

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1956 - +4 from 4’33”

60
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luciano berio when

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1925-2003 - 25 to 03, avant garde and free - leaves of 3, berries

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berio taught where

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juilliard > founder of juilliard ensemble

62
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berio sequenze

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solo instruments (the silly ones) > silly sequenze

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sequenze genre

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fantasia

64
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berio sinfonia when

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1969 - sin

65
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sinfonia genre

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… symphony

66
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sinfonia ensemble

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amplified vocal octet (8 letters in sinfonia), orchestra; extended techniques for voice (whisper, shout, etc)

67
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sinfonia mvt 2 meaning

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“o king” tribute to mlk jr; his name repeated

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sequenzas

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berios works for solo instruments; ext techniques, dramatized performance

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fantasia + relation to sequenza

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traditionally, 1mvt work for solo inst, imaginitive, innovate, virtuosic, improv character

70
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cathy berberian when

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1925-1983 - 25 like berez (both b), 83 stripsody rhyme

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berberian what

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amer singer + composer; avant garde

72
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berberian married to who

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berio; wrote works specifically for her

73
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berberian influence

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historically informed performance; attempt to recreate earlier music using methods + instruments originally used - like a historical liberberarian

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berberian stripsody when

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1966 - because it sounds awful and satanic (6)

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berberian noted for

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virtuosity in avant garde works

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vocalise/ese?

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textless song for voice, as in stripsody

77
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quotation music/musical quotation/collage

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like a remix! can be musical or verbal quotes

78
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georgy ligeti when

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1923-2006 - 23 rhymes with both his names and 2*3 is 6. and 2006 06 for 6 letters in his names

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ligeti what music

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electronic music; inspired by sounds encountered in recording lab; idk his name sounds kind of electronic somehow

80
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ligeti background

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hungarian jewish composer, from romania

81
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ligeti worked with who

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stockhausen

82
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ligeti new style term

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soundmass

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ligeti new texture term

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micropolyphony

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soundmass comp

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eschew conventional melody; merging orch cluster, detailed activity indistinguishable within the larger mass of sound

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micropolyphony

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texture term; individual parts lost within complex sonic activity; individ instruments play imit or non imit poly so closely spaced that its indiscernible

86
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john cage two ways of incorporating aleatory (comp and perform)

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rolling dice, highlighting imperfections in music paper; accidental noise

87
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points of 4’33”

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make people uncomfortable and learn to experience nonmusic sound/reevaluate sound; they become performers

88
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webern four songs wiese im park genre

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chamber art song

89
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webern four songs wiese im park ensemble

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soprano, 13 player chamber orch (polyphony? homophony?)

90
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webern cantata freundselig genre

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probably cantata idk

91
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boulez bourreaux de solitude genre

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cycle of chamber art songs

92
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boulez bourreaux de solitude ensemble

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alto voice, mixed chamber ens

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boulez bourreaux de solitude comp process

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integral serialism - remember he was the rock/pierre, integral for serialism

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boulez bourreaux de solitude harm lang

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atonal

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boulez bourreaux de solitude texture

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pointillism - notes in “solitude”

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gesang der junglinge used which types of noise

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sine and filtered through subtractive synth

97
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berio sinfonia o king genre

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symphony

98
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berio sinfonia in ruhig fliessender specific genre

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scherzo - part of symphony - “keep going!” like keep dancing - scherzo is a dance

99
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berberian stripsody style

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avant garde??? seriously not sure what else to put for this piece

100
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ligeti lux aeterna style

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soundmass + neoclassical

101
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ligeti lux aeterna harm lang

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atonal

102
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ligeti lux aeterna texture

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micropolyphony

103
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ligeti atmospheres ensemble

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full orchestra, no percussion

104
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aphorism

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accomplishing the “point” of the music in a short amount of time

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