MUSIC 101 Study Guide - Bird Vocalization, Symbolic Power, Mbaqanga
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French military term: before the front, in advance. Artistic sense: deliberate, radical departure from past. Modernism : rejection of classical and popular art, art pursues the challenging/interesting, not the beautiful/transcendent, the music is all about being in the moment of its time. Primary worker with music in the futurist rebellion. Originally an artist- not a musician: l arte dei rumori 1913 manifesto. Intonarumori noise intoners: croaker, cracker, rubber, burster, whistler, gugler, howler, hummer. Risveglio di un citta used the intonarumori, composed by russolo image of a city coming to life in the morning. 1922: goes to europe with intent as being a concert pianist: in berlin, meets stravinsky, 1923: performance at theatre des champs-elysees. Ballet mecanique: originally composed to coronate a film, ballet of mechanical instruments involved 16 pianos, 3 xylophones, 7 electric bells, airplane propellers, a siren, 4 bass drums and a gong, sounds: ostinatos, juxtaposition, non-musical instruments.
