Music 2711F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Aleatoric Music, Musical Quotation, Gregorian Chant
13 Oct 2016
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Did the attack on convention that serialism and indeterminacy represented. Many composers continued to do radical things, especially in the realm of serialism and aleatoric music in the 60s. Later on, more composers seemed to think the obsession with progress needed to be challenged. Have a lot to do with postmodernism. Postmodernism reaction to modernism challenges modernism(cid:495)s assumptions about truth, identity, and progress. 1. collapse of cultural hierarchies- all approaches equally valid. Progress: are progress and change always a good thing, we don"t always need to move society forward in some way, wars of 20th century fought in the name of change. Growing interest in works that focus on quotation of existing music. E xtr e me in collage compositions , we see a profusion of different types of quotations from different styles of music. Features of 1960 quotation techniques: juxtaposition between different kinds of sound worlds.
