Timbre/Texture
This concept describes when timbres are developed in a way similar to traditional melodies.
What is klangfarbenmelodie?
This composer created a microtonal canon in his song "Der Sommer."
Who is Heinz Holliger?
This kind of score describes Ligeti's "Artikulation" and Lachenmann's "Guero."
What is a graphic score?
This concept describes music composed with a focus on the overtone series.
What is spectralism?
This composer discovered phasing through playing around with tape recorders.
Who is Steve Reich?
This composer produced a piece using dynamic counterpoint, achieved through a combination of equal, ebbing, and mounting slides.
Who is Ruth Crawford Seeger?
Holliger, Eastman, and Oliveros share this conceptual technique in common.
What is aleatory?
Pauline Oliveros' "Breaking Boundaries" used this kind of score.
What is a text score?
These partials are significantly out of tune.
What are 7, 11, 13, and 14?
This machine was used in Laurie Anderson's "O Superman" to layer her voice.
What is a vocoder?
This piece manipulated a traditional piano with bows and required 9 different performers to share the same instrument. (need composer + title)
What is "Rainbows II" by Steven Scott?
This kind of semiotics describes how Chen evoked ancient Chinese bells in her piece "Echoes of the Set Bells."
This composer used the stopwatch method instead of traditional measure lines to keep his performers aligned.
Who is Julius Eastman?
These three composers all used microtonal accidentals in their pieces. (first and last names!)
This piece was written for a contrabass duodecet but has never actually been performed by one.
What is "Spectral Canon No. 1" by Marc Sabat?
These four instruments were used in Elliot Carter's Eight Etudes and a Fantasy, Mvt. VII
What are the flute, oboe, clarinet, and bassoon?
This prime form corresponds to the pc set [A, Eb, F].
What is (0 2 6)?
This shape notehead is used to indicate an artificial harmonic.
What is a diamond?
This composer gave numbers below the staff to indicate the number of cents a pitch was out of tune.
Who is Marc Sabat?
These are the last words of Laurie Anderson's "O Superman."
What is "In your electronic arms"?
This word describes the relationship between the two saxophones in Joseph Michaels' "Assembly Line."
What is 'hocket'?
This I5 corresponds to the following P8:
8 7 11 0 9 6 2 5 1 4 10 3
What is 5 6 2 1 4 7 11 8 0 9 3 10?
This piece's graphic score used colors to represent different timbres.
What is Ligeti's "Artikulation"?
This pitch is the 9th partial of the fundamental A.
What is B?
This is the meaning of the word 'koyaanisqatsi.'
What is 'life out of balance'?