MUAR 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Binary Form, Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps, Prepared Piano

• School: McGill University
• Department: Music - Arts
• Course: MUAR 211
• Professor: Jerry M.Cain

Document Summary

Imp 20th century avant guard works: oliver messjaen"s quatuor pour la fin du temps (quartet, not strings, four instruments) pre-1950 (cid:1) Texture: 4 parts violin, clarinet, viola, piano and independent. Genre: cycle of art songs with instrumental movements in it. Cage: one of the most influential composer of america of 60s and 70s. Sound of spiritual teachings and non western (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Traffic: no one is talking, sound is acting, activity of sound. Touching keys, using arms for clustered of keys, reached inside piano and plucked keys. Prepared piano: putting things in piano (amazing different tampers) Sustain pitches and ring freely and sing into piano. 18th century type of sonata sonata is a three movement work for piano and instrumental soloist element of neoclassicism in 1947. Some parameters not controlled, has ability to change and somehow random. Two ways and different types: during composition and in performance.