The New Music

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The New Music

• 1950 to present

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The New Music

• Exoticism (continued)
• Asian musical influences
• Abing (1883 - 1950)
• The Moon Reflected on the Second Springs (1950)
• Tan Dun ( b. 1957)
• Chinese composer of Post-Mao era but
• still met with official state censorship.
• Came to US in 1983 and has written 2 film scores
  of great renown Fallen and Crouching Tiger,
  Hidden Dragon

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Technology and Music

• Electronic music - Tape recorders, computers
• and synthesizers
• Edgar Varèse (1883 - 1965)
• Poème Electronique (1958)
• Written for Brussels Worlds Fair
• Used electronically generated sounds and
• music concrète

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The New Music

• Technology and Music
• Paul Lansky (b. 1944)
• A pioneer in digital sound synthesis.
• Princeton University
• Computer-assisted composition
• Notjustmoreidlechatter (1988)

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Some Current Trends

• The New Romanticism
• Joan Tower ( b. 1938)
• Abandoned serial techniques in 1970s and moved
  toward more tonal styles. Influenced by
  Stravinsky and Copland.
• For the Uncommon Woman (1992)

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Some Current Trends

• Minimalism
• music of repetition, influenced by exoticism and
  Rock music
• John Adams, Phillip Glass, and Terry Riley
• Arvo Pärt ( b. 1935)
• Estonian composer. Persecuted for his religious
  beliefs in USSR he fled to the West in 1980.
• Tintinnabulation - the ringing of bells
• Cantata Domino canticum novum (1977 rev. 1996)

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Some Current Trends

• Post-Minimalism
• John Adams ( b. 1947)
• Best known composer of genre.
• Hypnotic nature of rhythm and harmony.
• Opera - Nixon in China
• Roadrunner, Chamber Symphony
• Short Ride on a Fast Machine

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