MUS 114 Lecture 13: GN Chap 53 Stravinsky
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Slide 2: features of early musical modernism: time of great diversity and experimentation. 20th century/ baroque spirit constant search for new timbre new approaches to rhythm and meter breakdown of harmonic structures. Slide 3: features of early musical modernism: timbre/tone color independent melody new sounds/sources and unusual combinations, harmony= highly dissonant new tonal systems. Polytonality: two or more keys at one time. Atonality: absence of a tonal center polychords: two/more chords sounded at one time tone cluster: dense chromatic chords. Slide 4: features of early musical modernism: melody= instrumentally concieved unbalanced phrases chromatic, angular, jagged, and fragmented octave displacement, dynamics, orchestration. Chapter 53: calculated shock: stravinsky and modernist multimedia. Slide 1: calculated shock: stravinsky and modernist multimedia: in every human society, dance plays important social, expressive, and/or religious roles. : collaborative multimedia: one of the most influential pieces of 20th century.
