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1. ELECTRONIC & CHANCE MUSIC Quarter 1 Lesson 3

2. Technology has produced electronic music devices such as cassette tape recorders , compact discs and their variants, the video compact disc ( VCD ) and the digital video disc ( DVD ), MP3, MP4 , ipod , iphone , karaoke players , mobile phones and synthesizers .

3. ELECTRONIC MUSIC Music that employs electronic musical instruments and technology in production.

4. (NO) The composer is able to experiment with different sounds that cannot be produced by regular musical instruments.

5. Musique Concrete Music that uses the tape recorder.

6. (NO) These sounds are arranged by the composer in different ways like by playing the tape recorder in its fastest mode or in reverse.

7. COMPOSERS

8. EDGARD VICTOR ACHILLE CHARLES VARESE

9. EDGARD VARÈSE Born on December 22, 1883 and died on November 6, 1965 “Innovative French- born composer”

10. EDGARD VARÈSE “Father of Electronic Music” His musical compositions total around 50.

11. NOTABLE COMPOSITIONS: “ Bourgogne ” (Burgundy) – only one of his early orchestral works to be properly performed in his lifetime, but caused a scandal/riot.

12. “POÈME ÉLECTRONIQUE”

13. “POÈME ÉLECTRONIQUE”

14. KARLHEINZ S T O CKHAU S E N

15. KARLHEINZ S T O CKHAU SE N Born in Cologne, Germany in 1928. A central figure in the realm of electronic music. He develped his style of Total Serialism.

16. KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN The climax of his compositional ambition came in 1977 when he announced the creation of Licht (Light) .

17. (NO) a seven-part opera(one for each day of the week) for a gigantic ensemble of solo voices, solo instruments, solo dancers, choirs, orchestras, mimes, and electronics.

18. NOTABLE COMPOSITIONS: Gruppen (1957) , a piece for three orchestras that moved music through time and space. Kontakte (1960), a work that pushed the tape machine to its limits

19. NOTABLE COMPOSITIONS: Hymnen (1965), an ambitious two-hour work of 40 juxtaposed songs and anthems from around the world.

20. NOTABLE COMPOSITIONS: Helicopter String Quartet , in which a string quartet performs whilst airborne in four different helicopters, develops his long-standing fascination with music which moves in space.

21. “KONTAKTE”

22. “KONTAKTE”

23. CHANCE MUSIC

24. CHANCE MUSIC Music created by chance and its realization is left to the performer. Also known as ALEATORY MUSIC or chance- controlled music.

25. CHANCE MUSIC It is a style wherein the piece always sounds different at every performance because of the random techniques of production .

26. (NO) including the use of ring modulators or natural elements (sounds) that become a part of the music.

27. JOHN CAGE

28. JOHN CAGE Born in Los Angeles, California, USA on September 5, 1912 . one of the most original composers in the history of western music.

29. JOHN CAGE Creator of Chance music. He was considered more of a musical philosopher than a composer.

30. (NO) Cage influenced the development of modern music since the 1950s

31. JOHN CAGE His musical compositions total around 229 . Cage died in New York City on August 12, 1992.

32. 4’33 ’ ’ a chance musical work that instructed the pianist to merely open the piano lid and remain silent for the length of time indicated by the title.

33. NO The work was intended to convey the impossibility of achieving total silence, since surrounding sounds can still be heard amidst the silence of the piano performance.

34. 4’33’’

35. 4’33’’