8. Listen to the
Music!
1. What can you say about the music?
2. How will you describe the emotion of
the composer?
3. What mood does the composer is trying
to portray?
13. Write your own understanding on the following
movements in music. (5 minutes)
14. It made use of the whole tone
scale.
It also applied suggested rather
than depicted, reality.
It created a mood rather than a
definite picture.
It had a translucent and hazy
texture, lacking a dominant-tonic
relationship.
15.
16.
17. Revealed the composers mind
instead of presenting an impression
of the environment.
It used Atonality and 12-tone scale.
It served as a medium for
expressing strong emotions, such as
anxiety, rage and alienation.
22. is associated with electronic music
of sound in space.
use of variations of self-contained
note groups to change musical
continuity and improvisation.
Absence of traditional rules on
harmony, melody and rhythm.
23. A looser form of 20th century music
development that focused on
nationalist composer.
It combines modern techniques and
folk materials.
25. ELECTRONIC MUSIC
Music that uses the tape recorder is called “musique
concrete” or “concrete music”.
The sounds are arranged by the composers in different
ways, for example by playing the tape recorder in its
fastest mode or in reverse.
In musique concrete, the composer is able to experiment
with different sounds that cannot be produced by
irregular musical instruments (piano or violin).
26. Edgar Varese (1883-
1965)
Was born on Dec. 22, 1883, France.
He was considered an “innovative French-born
composer”.
His compositions are characterized by an emphasis on
TIMBRE and RHYTHM.
He invented the term “Organized Sound”
Called the “Father of Electronic Music”
27. Karlheinz Stockhausen
(1928)
Born on 1928 in Cologne, Germany.
He is a central figure in the realm of Electronic music.
Stockhausen’s music was initially met with resistance
due to heavily atonal content.
Still he continued to experiment with “musique concrete”
28. CHANCE MUSIC
Refers to the style in which the piece sounds different at
every performance.
Most of the sounds emanate from the surroundings both
natural and man-made.
Combination of external sounds cannot be duplicated as
each happens by chance.
29. John Cage (1912-1992)
Was born on Sept. 5, 1912 in LA California, USA.
One of the 20th century composers with the widest array of
sounds in his works.
He challenge the very idea of music by manipulating musical
instruments to achieve new sounds – Chance music.
Became famous for his composition “Four Minutes and 33
Seconds, a chance musical work.
32. 1.Which of the following musical styles created a
mood rather than a definite picture?
a.Impressionism c. Expressionism
b.Neo-classicism d. Modern-nationalism
33. 2. It made use of a freer seven-note diatonic
scale.
a.Impressionism c. Expressionism
b.Neo-classicism d. Avant-Garde
34. 3. What musical style was associated with
electronic music of sound in space?
a.Electronic music c. Expressionism
b.Neo-classicism d. Avant-garde
35. 4. It served as a medium of expressing strong
emotions and revealing composer’s mind.
a.Electronic music c. Expressionism
b.Neo-classicism d. Avant-Garde
36. 5. What music scale does Impressionism style
has?
a.Whole tone scale c. Diatonic scale
b.12-tone scale d. Atonality
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The start of the 20th century saw the rise of distinct musical styles that reflected a move away from the conventions of earlier Western Classical music. These new styles were: