2. Bach
Beethoven
Schubert
Same mediums, general chord
progressions, and emotions behind the
music. Excepted by everyone as cultured and
tasteful art.
3. Group of innovative composers
Not interested in traditional ideas,
techniques, or subject matter.
Pioneered brand new music mediums. Often
focusing more on structure and ambient
sounds and less on traditional cord
progression.
4. Dissatisfaction and irritation with traditional
stale compositions.
New technologies
More organic and sophisticated motive
Over glorification of the composer,.
Moving away from traditional music’s
harmony and rhythm.
5. JOHN CAGE
ARONLD SCHENBURG
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN
STEVE REISCH
8. Born: September, 5 1912
Attended Pomona College and dropped out
Went to Europe, began to study music
Came back and began exploration of ambient
sound and silence.
9. A professor told him that if he didn’t
compose the “right” way, using the “right”
chord progressions, and the “right” melodic
tendencies, he would never be a successful
composer.
“I can’t understand why people are frightened
of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.”
–John Cage, decided to move on to those new
ideas.
10. Contributed to many art pieces from other
movements with ambient scores.
Choreographers
Composers
Designers
Painters
Film Directors
11. Music by chance
“A roll of the dice”
Organic sounds of the city, or of an object,
arranged to capture the purest essence of the
environment itself.
13. Most Famous Piece
At 4 minutes and 33 seconds long, 4’33” was
originally performed by DavidTudor, in a very
formal western concert hall setting.
“Confronted with silence in a setting that we
cannot control, and where we do not expect
this kind of event, we might have any number
of responses. Baffled, bored agitated,
cultured, philosophical, or even smug
..because we “get it” –John Cage
15. John Cage and Marcel Duchamp were
actuallyGREAT friends
Exchanged ideas and thoughts on music and
sound
Constructed pieces together
16. Duchamp and Cage wired their chess board
so that each move would activate or cut off a
live instrument playing elsewhere: thus
creating a classic aleatoric piece.
19. Created Prepared Piano early in his career,
but didn’t get around to actually using it until
he left Chicago.
Composed sonatas traditionally, and then
used prepared piano to transform the piece
The buffered strings and muted sounds were
meant to symbolize his voice in the art
community
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21. http://youtu.be/pUTXNxFvjDw - II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fPSz-
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35EBC – Full Sonata
http://youtu.be/kc3-C7Lnzh0 -Visual
demonstration by David Greilsammer
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24. He was born September 13, 1874
Died on July 13, 1951
Raised inVienna Austria
Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian composer associated
with the expressionist movement. He developed the 12
tone technique a widely influential compositional method
He learned to play cello and violin. Dad died when he was
16. Took a job as a bank clerk for extra money
He studied at the Realschule inVienna
Arnold lived in Austria, later moved to Berlin and then
California.
Served in the Army duringWWI- later migrated to the US
25. JS Bach inspired Schoenberg throughout his
life and his era.
He was also influenced by Oskar Adler who
encouraged him to play cello.
Alexander von Zemlinsky became his friend
and taught him composition
He was an original and contributed SO much
to music in the 20th century and it still lives on
today.
26. He learned to play violin as a child.
At the age of 9, he was already composing
pieces for two violins.
27. His early works which were reminiscent of
Johannes Brahms and Richard Strauss are
disliked to this day because they were written
by his infamous hand.
One of his well liked pieces was Opus 31
29. TwelveTone method
This method ensured that all twelve notes of
the chromatic scale as often as one another
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZdsOHR
DMEA
Most well known works
30. Arnold Schoenberg changed the game for
music composition
He invented the 12 tone technique which is a
method of musical composition
The technique ensures that all 12 notes of the
chromatic scale are sounded as often as one
another in a piece of music while
deemphasizing any one note, thus all 12
notes are equally important