Steve Reich
This piece by Steve Reich is made up of a series of percussive hand sounds.
What is Clapping Music?
A term used to describe reliance of understanding based on references to another piece of music, text, literature or art.
What is Intertextuality?
An American composer who wrote Allemande, based on a piece by Sol LeWitt; is the youngest ever winner of the Pulitzer Prize for music.
Who is Caroline Shaw?
An American composer, the author of the 1905 symphony New England Holidays.
Who was Charles Ives?
Music that does not have a tonal center can be described with this term:
What is Atonal?
A 1995 Steve Reich piece which includes a recording of a man calling "check it out, check it out!"
What is City Life?
Coined by John Cage, this term refers to the randomness of music within a set of defined parameters.
What is Indeterminacy?
A producer of the Beatles, who encouraged the band to use a purely instrumental bridge in A Day in the Life.
Who is George Martin?
This composer was so taken with the sincerity and simplicity of a homeless man's hymn singing, "Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet", that he wrote a huge musical work featuring a recording of the homeless man. The last section is a lush orchestral setting where Tom Waits sings a "duet" with the recording.
Who is Gavin Bryars?
This Russian composer wrote The Firebird, Petrushka, and The Rite of Spring; the latter caused a riot at its Paris premiere in 1913, probably because the ballet was about a Russian pre-Christian tribe with a sacrificial virgin, who dances herself to death.
Who was Igor Stravinsky?
A piece composed by Reich in 1972 based on medieval organum, with 11 chords which form the basis for the hourlong piece and can be performed by an ensemble without a conductor.
What is Music for 18 Musicians?
If I'm using this principle, I can claim ambulance sirens, conversation, garbage trucks and other "found objects" as musical elements
What is "any sound can be music?"
This Beatles album first included A Day in the Life.
What is Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band?
A piece by John Zorn, based on crime novels, which includes screams, street sounds, and traditional jazz riffs, as a set of brief vignettes, composed by a shuffling of index cards.
What is Spillane?
Music "not always written for the listener's pleasure" or "who cares if you listen?" is a concept that enforces this theme in modern to postmodern ideals.
What is "Composer as visionary"?
Steve Reich would be called this type of composer
What is a Minimalist composer?
The use of various -- sometimes contrasting -- styles in a single work of art.
What is Eclecticism?
The composers and performers of Paranoid Android.
Who are Radiohead?
Scott Johnson's 1970 piece developed from a snippet of everyday conversation.
What is John Somebody Part One?
He wrote Peripeteia, as one of his Five Pieces for Orchestra (1911), which was characterized by atonality and the "emancipation of the dissonance".
Who is Arnold Schoenberg?
This 1972 piece features tape loops of a phrase by a street preacher, and was Steve Reich's first use of his "phasing" technique.
What is It's Gonna Rain?
A term that describes how different people will make different meanings from their reactions to a work of art.
What is Reader Response Theory?
The composer of the 2005 song cycle Ayre, which includes the song Wa Habibi, based on an Arabic Christian hymn?
Who is Osvaldo Golijov?
The writer of Three Pieces in the Form of a Pear, originally composed for piano.
Who was Erik Satie?
Non-western cultures had the strongest influence in Western music on this musical element.
What is Rhythm?