MUAR 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Pierre Boulez, Darmstadt School, Serialism
10 Apr 2019
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Music of the 20th and 21st centuries continued 09/04/18. Pierre boulez (1925 2016: after the war, germany was ruined, they started the darmstadt school in germany, which was a summer music program, and produced many avant-garde composers. Boulez attended and taught at the school. Some of the most dissonant of all atonal music. Extremely difficult to play properly, since they often make the rhythm to seem like there is no beat. Integral serialism/control music: expanding serial procedures beyond pitch to control all music parameters. Want music to be rational, so they ordered everything, not just the pitches as was done in 12 tone music. Titles like structures ia, which doesn"t suggest a genre at all and sounds more sculptural: music started trying to resemble the plastic arts. This process creates a sound world that you can only get with this process. No two movements have the same instrumentation (just like pierre lunaire)
