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Unit 3: "Modern" Classical music

This music was developed at the beginning of the 20th Century.
Never use tonality patterns
Use music theories from the past (Specially medieval and Renaissance).
Use of twelve notes system (Tonality only use seven).
Strange ensembles.
New instruments (Ondes martenot and Theremin).
Some composers who used this style were: Carl Orff, Bela Bartok and Igor Stravinsky

Carl Orff - Camina Burana (O Fortuna)

Bela Bartok - Sonata for two pianos and percussion

Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring.

It is a method of musical composition devised by Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg-
The technique is a means of ensuring that all 12 notes of the chromatic scale are sounded as often as one another in a piece of music.
The technique was influential on composers in the mid-20th century.
Some composers were: Arnold Schönberg, Alban Berg and Anton Weber

Arnold Schönberg - piano piece

Alban Berg - Violin Concerto

Anton Weber - Variations op.27

Electric music originated in Western art music during the modern era following the incorporation of electric sound production into compositional practice.
Tape music, electronic music, and computer music were all explored.
The majority of electroacoustic pieces use a combination of recorded sound and synthesized or processed sounds.
Musique concrète is a genre of electroacoustic music that is made in part from acousmatic sound.
Some composers were John Cage, Luciano Berio and Karlheim Stockhausen

John Cage - Imaginary landscape Nº1

Luciano Berio - Sequenza III

Stockhausen - Telemusik

It is music in which some element of the composition is left to chance.
Sometimes, realization is left to the determination of its performer(s).
The term is most often associated with procedures in which the chance element involves a relatively limited number of possibilities.
Some composers were: Henry Cowell, Penderecki and Ligeti

Henry Cowell - Mosaic Quartet

Penderecki - Threnody for the victims of Hiroshima

Ligeti - Articulation

It is a style associated with the work of American composers La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass.
It originated in the New York Downtown scene of the 1960s and was initially viewed as a form of experimental music called the New York Hypnotic School.
it is marked by a non-narrative, non-teleological, and non-representational conception of a work in progress.
Normally, minimalism tried to use a small amount of musical elements.
It focuses on the internal processes of the music, which lack goals or motion toward those goals.
Some composers are: Riley, Reich, Glass