MUAR 211 Lecture Notes - Minimal Music, Plastic Arts, Music Of Africa
14 Apr 2013
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April 11th, 2013 classical modernism is anything before 1950 song for 18 musicians is either a symphony or a suite. Post modernism art includes the viewers/participants to be in the artwork, being able to physically move through it, ie/ if the art took up an entire room. Phase shifting/process music: classic minimalist works often undergo a slow, subtle rhythmic change or shift over short or long period of time. Minimalist compositions nearly always employ some type of diatonic tonality sound consonant creation of minimalist music parallels similar aesthetic of simplification, repetition & abstract symmetry in plastic arts. Earliest composers influenced by contemplative musical & visual arts of india, china, China (1987) & the death of klinghoffer (1991: won pulitzer prize in 2003 for orchestral work on the transmigration of souls dedicated to victims of 9/11. Arvo part (1935-present: born in estonia, former republic of soviet union, studied early (medieval & renaissance) music in 1970s.
