THE FUTURE OF MODERN MUSIC   

 What have we Learned, or can we learn, from the book, “The Future of Modern Music”?

Here’s a little teaser to find out:

I) Concept Identification and definition:

1)      What composer had two famous pupils who became great composers in their own right?

       2)      Who were those two pupils/composers?

3)      What organizational principle did they introduce into musical composition?

4)      How did the approach to this organizational principle differ between the three?

5)      What is tone color melody?

6)      What composers are famous for introducing uncertainty into the compositional process (two names are required; a third gets extra credit)?

7)      How do the uncertainty protocols differ in each case?

8)      What is ‘mobile’ sound, and who introduced it?

9)      What musical elements can be constrained in the process of applying a ‘mobile’ sound construction?

10)  What is a ‘continuum’ in sound?

11)  Who is responsible for introducing that concept?

12)  What is a ‘stochastic’ process in music?

13)  What is indeterminacy and how does it differ from a ‘stochastic’ process?

14)  What is the so-called third dimension in sound?

II) Matching - match the following names with composition titles of their works:

            Composer                                                Title of Work

Paul Hindemith                                                             Five Pieces for Orchestra

            Arnold Schönberg                                                        Ionisation

            Julio Estrada                                                                  Rite of Spring

            Witold Lutoslawski                                                       Etchmiadzin Symphony

            Claude Debussy                                                            Concerto for Orchestra

            Leos Janácek                                                                  Rite of Spring

            Gian-Francesco Malipiero                                            Ishini’ioni

            Maurice Ravel                                                               The Flying Dutchman

            Iannis Xenakis                                                               Pavane pour une Infante defunte

            Gustav Mahler                                                               Hyperprism

            Béla Bartók                                                                     Prometeo – ‘Tragedia dell’ascolto’

         Alban Berg                                                                     Lyric Suite for Strings

            Olivier Messiaen                                                           Protée – Orchestral Suite No. 2

            John Cage                                                                     ‘Resurrection’ Symphony (Symphony # 2)

            Edgard Varése                                                               Passacaglia, Op. 1

            Gerard Pape                                                                   Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum

         Darius Milhaud                                                             WOES

            Charles Ives                                                                   Anahit

            Igor Stravinsky                                                             Kontakte

            Giacinto Scelsi                                                              From the House of the Dead

            Bert Cooper                                                                   Mathis der Maler

            Pierre Boulez                                                                  La Mer

         Luigi Nono                                                                    Three Places In New England

            Anton Webern                                                              Pithoprakta

            Carl Ruggles                                                                  Pli Selon Pli

            Karlheinz Stockhausen                                                 4’33” for a Pianist

                                                                                                     Chain 3

                                                                            Wozzeck

                                                                                                     Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion

                                                                                                     Orient-Occident III

                                                                                                    Sun Treader

                                                                                                    Weaveworld

                                                                                                    Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

                                                                                                    Mother Goose

                                                                                                   Lontano

                                                                                                   Laborintus II

                                                                          Threnody: to the Victims of Hiroshima

                                                                                                   Canti di Vita e d’amour (Sul Ponte Hiroshima)

There is at least one composer who has no work represented. Can you name a work for him/them?

 There is at least one work for no composer. Can you name the composer(s)?

There may be more than one work to a composer, and more than one composer to the title for a listed work.

HAVE FUN!                              

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