VPMA99H3 Chapter 25: Chapter 25 Study Guide
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Chapter 25 the changing world of music since 1945. Compose many pieces on religious subjects because he is a devout catholic. Violin and clarinet play figures that suggest birdcall, sense of nature and divine. Cello notes are from a single whole-tone scale, repeating sequence of five note (c-e-d-f#- Chord series are repeated to create sense of stasis/ meditation. Piano and cello play a repeating series of duration that resemble talea or rhythmic pattern of medieval isorhythm. Piano features a string of 17 durations played ten times. Repeating pitch and rhythmic series create cyclic repetition, sense of contemplation. Cello plays in high harmonics (sounding 2 octaves above notated pitches) Create ethereal sound, augmented by gentle bird calls in high violin and clarinet over soft dissonances in piano. Musique concrete is to take the entire world of sound as potential material for music, manipulating chosen recorded sounds through mechanical and electronic means, and assembling them into collages.
