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Steve Reich
Postmodern Terms
Postmodern part 2
Postmodern part 1
From Modernism to Postmodernism
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This song, made up of a series of slaps
What is clapping or clapping music
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A term used to describe reliance of understanding based on a recognition to another piece of music, text, literature or art.
What is Intertextuality?
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An American composer who wrote a Partida/the Allemansde, based on a piece by Sol LeWitt, she is the youngest ever winner of the pulitzer prize for music.
Who is Caroline Shaw?
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An American composer, the author of the symphony New England Holidays from 1905.
Who is Charles Ives?
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Music that does not have a tonal center can be referred to as this term-
What is Atonal?
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A 1995 Steve Reich piece which includes a recording of a man calling "check it out, check it out!"
What is City Life
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Coined by John Cage, this term refers to the randomness of music within a set of defined parameters.
What is Indeterminacy?
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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?
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A 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 an orchestral piece featuring Tom Waits singing over a recording of that man's voice.
Who is Gavin Bryers?
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Non-western cultures influence this key transition in pattern and beat from the transition of modern to postmodern.
What is Unpredictable Rhythym?
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A piece composed by Reich in 1972 based on medieval plainchant with 11 chords which pulse and can be performed as an ensemble without a conductor.
What is Music for 18 musicians
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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?"
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The album which includes "A Day in the life" by the Beatles
What is Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
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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?
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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"?
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Steve Reich would be called this type of composer
What is a minimalist composer
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Something that is made up of various sources or styles.
What is Eclecticism?
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The writers of Paranoid Android
Who is Radiohead?
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Scott Johnson's piece developed from a snippet of conversation.
What is "John Somebody Part one"?
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He wrote Peripetia, which focused on atonality and emancipation of dissonance.
Who is Arnold Schoenberg?
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It's Going to Rain
What is Steve Reich's song written in 1972, where he came up with the technique phrasing
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A 2005 piece by Argentinian-Jewish composer which is written in Aramaic.
What is Ayre:VL Wa Habibi by Osvaldo Golijov
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The writer of three pieces in the form of a pair, originally composed for piano.
Who is Eric Satie?
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This Russian composer wrote The Firebird, Petrushka, and The Rite of Spring- the latter which caused a riot at its' premiere in 1913, probably because the ballet was about a fictitious springtime in Russia, including a pre-Christian tribe with a sacrificial virgin, who dances herself to death.
How is Igor Stravinsky?