MUSC 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Polytonality, Experimental Music, Dalcroze Eurhythmics
Document Summary
Experimental work of women was often ignored by the community of scholars and writers who most embraced the avant-garde. Avant- garde: a french military term, meaning to be in advance of others; in music refers to those who lead the way to the artistic future, even at the expense of risk. Experimental music: a 20th century term associated with music that explores new and unusual sounds and compositional techniques. Chance: music in which random procedures (such as coin tossing) determing the outcome of a work. Tonality was often abandoned in favor of atonal and polytonal styles. Polytonal: utilizes more than one key at once. Postmodernism and minimalism are few of the categories of new music that emerged. Postmodernism: an aesthetic that reflects fragmentation, rejects boundaries between high and low art and is not opposed to embracing the past. Minimalism: artistic movement that used small elements of repeated material that evolved slowly over time; emerged in the 1960s.
