MU - Music MU 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Expo 58, John Philip Sousa, God Save The Queen
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Marley Redd
MU – 125 Music in Society
Lecture Week 8
Assignment: Read Chapter 35-36 / today covers chapter 34: Chance Music and Electronic Music
Chance Music (from ch. 34)
• Philosophy (do try to not control music)
• “Goal-less” (mirrors Zen philosophy) – eliminates purpose
• The performance is left to chance
• Contains improvisation
• Very little or no notation lists
• Sometimes referred to as “aleatoric music”
John Cage (chance music composer)
• 20th century avant-garde composer of chance music
• Used recorded sounds
• Used objects and plants
• Used sounds from environment
• Used words and poetry
• Wrote “4 minutes and 33 seconds”
Electronic Music
• New engineered sounds and computer manipulated sounds
o Any pitch is possible: microtones
o Any timbre is possible
• Using recorded sounds
• Music concrete: using (and manipulating) recorded sounds as raw material for
composition)
• Fear of Drowning (a music concrete piece by Michel Plourde)
Edgar Varese (1883-1965)
• French born composer
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• Sound engineer/mathematician
• He collaborated with the bell telephone company
• His innovations led to landline tones
Poeme Electronique (pg. 308)
• By: Edgar Varese
• Written for 1958 World Fair
• Accompanies random images
• A soundscape for unusual architecture/rooms (pavilion at world fair) by “Le Corbusior”
(artistic name) not his real name
Date: 3/28/17
Today: Examples of American Music
• Patriotic Music
• Art Music
• Minimalism
U.S. Patriotic Music
• Used existing tunes
• Roots in European Music
o My Country Tis of Thee – is sung to British national anthem
• Was often sang to hymn tunes (America the Beautiful)
Early America Wind Band Music
• Patriotic Songs and Marches
• Community concert band
John Philip Sousa
• American Bandmaster
• Known as “March King”
• Hi invented marching
• Originally wrote for wind bands of @50
• Invented the sousaphone
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