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20th Century Exam #5
Listening Exam #3
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Music
Undergraduate 2
10/17/2009

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Term
The Banshee
Definition

Cowell

 

1925

 

- Screeching sounds made from the strings inside the piano

Term
Aeolian Harp
Definition

Cowell

 

1923

 

(sounds like Keyshia Cole's "Love")

 

-Nothing is added inside the piano. The sound comes from inside the piano.

Term
Study #1 for Player Piano
Definition

Nancarrow

 

1938

 

(sounds like a videogame)

 

-Demonstrates composers' concern for mechanical control of their music. Machine plays by itself.

Term
Hyperprism
Definition

Varese

 

1922

 

Internal tensions. Held together by rhythmic energy. (He likes sirens)
*Tension = drum symbals and horns

Term
Vertical Thoughts
Definition

Feldman

 

1963

 

Universally soft music. Meditative. Calm soundscape.

 

(you can hear soft bass drum rolls and maybe a triangle. Every now and then there will be a female voice singing on sustained note)

Term

Music for Sarah

Mvt.II

Definition

Fonville

 

1981

 

for solo flute

 

Key clicks can be heard (there's even a section of just key tapping and just some wind blowing). Shows her interest in dance.

Term
The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs
Definition

Cage

 

1942

 

Singer is accompanied by piano (but with keyboard closed) so it is used for percussion purposes.

-Chant like voice & crescendo

-Little dynamic

Term
Sequenza III
Definition

Berio

 

1965

 

Unaccompanied voice is used to make sound

Term

Sinfonia

 

Section III

Definition

Berio

 

1968

 

Layered sound for memory component. "St. Anthony" can be heard in the background.

-Music while people are talking

-(Might sound like a theme park w/people talking while music is playing)

Term

Ancient Voices of Children

 

Mvts.3 & 4

Definition

Crumb

 

1970

 

-Female singer is singing into piano in beginning

-Eventually piano comes in and percussion plays and you can hear people talking. Sounds a bit scary, like satanic children. *Sounds like a tribe chant

 

4th mvt=calm, soft singing

Term

Eight Songs for a Mad King

 

Numbers 6-8

Definition

Davies

 

1971

 

"Theater piece"

 

You can hear lots of clarinet and it can get scary sometimes and makes me think of "Great Mouse Detective." The guy talking sounds crazy and says "I'm nervous" a lot.

 

Near the end some instruments come in like piano and percussion, but he sounds like an insane guy singing?

Term
Poeme Electronique
Definition

Varese

 

1958

 

Synthesized sounds. (Think of space?)

-Uses "live" sounds and is assimilated into an electronic composition, and the manipulated.

Term
Antiphony IV
Definition

Gaburo

 

1967

 

Sounds are separated apart by silence.

- There are some horns, and some female voices randomly singing sustained operatic notes.

*Electronic tape with live performers.

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