MUS 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Gong, Stanley Kubrick, Celesta
27 May 2019
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Percussion: xylophone, snare drum, cymbals, tam tam, bass drum, timpani, piano. Celesta: short piano (used in horror movies) Incorporates bartok"s music for strings, percussion, and celesta. Creates an eerie and suspenseful mood through use of dissonance. Time: 4/4, 2/4, duple times; marching pace. Small-town american themes: they want to represent rural america (ex. Fourth of july and in the wild west) Captures the sounds of the fourth of july picnic. Collage - collection of different things put together (ex. Aural collage - collection of sounds, timbres, textures. Charles ives: uses different time signatures on top of each other. Music depicts 2 marching bands passing each other, playing different tunes. Contrasting sounds/timbres and textures/layers overlapping each other. Sound that a child would hear at a picnic. Wakes up (awakening section) - back to sounds of picnic. Description in the textbook: opening, dream, awakening. (for the exam: provide definition and include at least one direct quote from description in textbook)
