HMU111H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Prepared Piano, Tritone, La Monte Young
1 Apr 2016
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Total serialism composer extends serial techniques beyond pitch to dynamics, rhythm and timbre (very detailed, controlling everything) Big influence on avant garde movement in 1950s and 60s. Continued henry cowell"s work of introducing new sounds: sonatas and interludes for prepared piano. Chance music compositional decisions based on chance operations: music of changes (book 1, 1951) Indeterminacy elements of the music left up to the performer. Composition handed over to the performer and environment (ambient sounds) Parable on our troubled contemporary world, reference to vietnam war. Each player has full score (graphic notation) Opening chord contains tritone diabolus in musica . Cadenza accompagnata violinist and composer tartini, who wrote devil"s. Can be interpreted as postmodernism, can be eclectic, creating network of associations. Does not privilege any one style over another. La monte young (originator), terry riley, steve reich, philip glass. Metrical and perceptual ambiguity (hard to determine meter)
