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extraordinary multimedia experience, 1958 World FairĪn interesting composer who bridged BOTH phases of modernism in twentieth-century music "drone-like" quality (glacial surging, sense of receding, yet diverse tone colours). "sound complexes" slowly change over time so many pitches that consonance, dissonance and quality of pitch is lost some music uses no clear pitches or chords typifies search for new sonorities and also new attitudes towards time stress a passive sense of time that cuts against goal-directed culture chance composers questioned assumptions about musical time certain elements usually specified by the composer are left to chance
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Last of 3 stages in the evolution of electronic music appartus designed for music with arrays of sound-producing modules connected by "patch cords" to create complex sounds incorporating sounds of life into compositionsġ of 3 stages in the evolution of electronic music. one of the two areas in which avant-garde music in post WWII pahse made the greatest of its breakthroughs (the other area was TIME and RHythm) re-emerges as the driving force in music furing the 3rd quarter of teh 20th cenutry in a new more extreme phaseġ)COMPLEX CONSTRUCTIVISTS: highly intellecutal constructive tendencies (inspired by Schoenberg's serialism)Ģ) CHANCE COMPOSERS: relinquishing control of some elements of musical construction and leaving them to chanceĪ general term for sound quality, either of a momentary chord or of a whole piece or style a search for solid standards and norms (ex. turn back to other styles and genres (ex. extravagant experimentation that had marked the PREWAR period no longer seemed appropriate