Download Eric Satie (1866

Eric Satie (1866-1925)
Example: “Gymnopédie No. 1”, Trois Gymnopédies, no. 1 (1888)
Example: Parade (1917)
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Use of unconventional instruments
Typewriter
Pistol
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Example: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, third movement (1936)
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Ethnomusicology
Arch form — ABCB’C’
Musical Palindrome
Aaron Copland (1900-90)
Example: Appalachian Spring (1944)
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Pandiatonicism (cf. Atonality or Pantonality)
John Cage (1912-92)
Example: Sonata No. 5, Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano (1946-48).
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Unconventional use of conventional instruments
John Cage (1912-92)
American composer, performer, graphic artist, poet, and writer. He was also an expert on
edible mushrooms and cofounder of the New York Mycological Society.
Krzysztof Penderecki (1933- )
Example: Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima (1960)
• Microtonal music
• Extended performance techniques
Edgard Varèse (1883-1965)
Example: Poème électronique (1958)
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Musique concrète
Daniel Arfib (b. 1949)
Music for computer
Example: Le Souffle du Doux (1979)