MUSIC 120 Study Guide - Final Guide: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Ritornello, Keyboard Instrument
- Designed to be experienced as an album rather than as a random set of single tracks
- Contained "A Day in the Life" (amorphous & massive complex of sound), "Being for
the Benefit of Mr. Kite" (aleatory procedures), and "Within You, Without You"
(asymmetrical meter)
asymmetrical meters: see Rite of Spring, and “Within You, Without You.”
- Uncommon in western music, but are common in some non-western musics
- Meter whose measures can't be divided into equal beats; they have an odd number of
subdivisions
aleatory (chance) procedures
- First used by John Cage
- Designed to discover "real" music that lay beyond the reach of the composer's limiting
personality
- Also used by Beatles in song "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite"
prepared piano
- Created by John Cage
- A piano that has had its sound altered by placing objects on or between the strings
extended techniques
Unconventional, unorthodox, or non-traditional methods of singing or of
playing musical instruments employed to obtain unusual sounds or timbres
ostinato (in 20th-century music)
A motive or short phrase that is repeated persistently
West Side Story
- Presented in 1967
- It is an Integrated (Book) Musical
- Composers: Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim
- Choreographer: Robin
ONLY THE LISTENING PORTION of the EXAM will be CULMLATIVE
