MUS 142 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Tone Cluster, Polytonality, Atonality
MUS 114: Guided Notes
Week 12: Wednesday, Apr 6
Topic: Prelude 6: Making Music Modern
Chapter 53: Calculated Shock: Stravinsky and Modernist Multimedia
LG 44 Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Prelude 6: Making Music Modern
Slide 1: Modernisms
A. Artists self- consciously “modern”
B. Purposeful departures from tradition
C. A multitude of “isms”
D. Desire to depart from 19th Century practices
E. Vernacular traditions vs. mass culture
Slide 2: Features of Early Musical Modernism
A. Time of great diversity and experimentation
>20th century/Baroque spirit
>constant search for new timbres
>new approaches to rhythm and meter
>breakdown of harmonic structures
new chord
Slide 3: Features of Early Musical Modernism
• Timbre/Tone Color
>independent of 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 conceived
>unbalanced phrases
>chromatic, angular, jagged, and fragmented
>octave displacement
• Dynamics
>extreme = emphasis on specific element
• Orchestration
>smaller, leaner, brighter
>greater focus on percussion and winds
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Document Summary
Slide 1: modernisms: artists self- consciously modern , purposeful departures from tradition, a multitude of isms , desire to depart from 19th century practices, vernacular traditions vs. mass culture. Slide 2: features of early musical modernism: time of great diversity and experimentation. Slide 3: features of early musical modernism: timbre/tone color. >new sounds/sources and unusual combinations: harmony = highly dissonant. >tone cluster: dense chromatic chords polytonality: two or more keys at one time atonality: absence of a tonal center. Slide 4: features of early musical modernism: melody = instrumentally conceived. >extreme = emphasis on specific element: 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. Slide 2: the rite of spring: collaborative multimedia: one of the most influential pieces of 20th century. >now performed as a concert piece: serge diaghilev"s ballet russes.
