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Flashcards by Donald Carlson, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Donald Carlson
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| Question | Answer |
| Name two important technological inventions of the late 1800s that were influential to the creation of early electronic music. | Telephone, Phonograph |
| Luigi Russolo is known for his design and creation of what instrument? | Intonarumori |
| Luigi Russolo wrote his manifesto titled ______________________________ in 1913. | Art of Noises |
| Luigi Russolo is often regarded as one of the first ______________________________ composers. | Noise music |
| Who invented the Telharmonium? | Cahill |
| The Telharmonium transmitted to the listener’s home music through ______________________________. | Telephone Wires |
| Briefly describe how the Theremin is played. | One hand controls pitch, one hand controls volume, you don’t touch the instrument |
| What was another name for an early Theremin? | Ether phone |
| ______________________________ was a Theremin virtuoso and she toured as a recitalist on the instrument. | Clara Rockmore |
| The Ondes Martenot is an offspring of what other electronic music instrument? | Theremin |
| Briefly describe the design/construction of the Ondes Martenot. | Keyboard, ring controller to change pitch, button for sound |
| The Ondes Martenot has seen a revival in its use due to the efforts of ______________________________, the guitarist for the band ______________________________. | Johnny Greenwood, Radiohead |
| John Cage studied music composition primarily with what famous modern classical music composer? | Arnold Schonberg |
| Cage studied and was influenced by the philosophy and religion of ______________________________. | Zen Buddhism |
| John Cage would often use the ancient Chinese divination book called ______________________________ in his compositional methods. | E ching |
| Name one of John Cage’s musical inventions? | Water gong, prepared piano |
| Cage is famous for saying “try as we may to make a ___________________________________, we cannot.” | Silence |
| John Cage is known for his indeterminate compositions. Another term for this is ______________________________. | Aleatoric music |
| John Cage is cited as one of the first composers to write ______________________________ music, which combines the use of electronic devices with traditional musical instruments. | Electroacoustic |
| Poéme Èlectronique was composed for what international event? | 1958 World’s Fair Brussels |
| There were more than __________ speakers in the walls of the Philips Pavilion for the first performance of Poéme Èlectronique. | 400 |
| Varèse is also known for his works for percussion ensemble including Ionisation, which introduced the ______________________________ as a musical instrument. | Siren |
| Varèse was, at one point, very unhappy with his music leading to a __________ year hiatius. | 20 |
| ______________________________ is defined as the character or quality of a musical sound or voice as distinct from its pitch or intensity. | Timbre |
| Musique concrète can be based on sounds that are ______________________________ or ______________________________. | Real, electronic |
| Pierre Schaeffer thought that composers should stop working as artists and creators and instead become ______________________________ of sound and acoustics. | Researchers |
| Pierre Schaeffer saw musique concrète as a sonic analog to ______________________________. | Photography |
| Hugh LeCaine’s Dripsody is composed from a single audio sample of what sound? | Drop of Water |
| Dripsody is mostly based around what musical scale? | Pentatonic |
| What is the name of the early synthesizer invented by Hugh LeCaine? | Electric sackbut |
| Xannis Xenakis’ Concret PH is composed from audio samples of what sound? | Burning charcoal |
| Concret PH was composed for what international event? | 1958 World Fair, Brussels |
| Xenakis also had a career in what other field? | Architecture |
| Xenakis created music based on mathematics and probability called ______________________________ music. | Stochastic |
| Karlheinz Stockhausen appears on the cover of what popular music album? | Sargent Pepper and the Lonely Heart Club Band |
| Stockhausen’s experiments in Elektronische Musik were pieces of music made from ______________________________ sounds. | Electronically produced synthetic sounds |
| Name one of the many styles of modern composition that Stockhausen used in his music. | Pointillism, serialism, indeterminate |
| Name the polarizing composer that made controversial statements about the 9/11 tragedy. | Stockhausen |
| Name one of the four men that founded the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. | Milton Babbit, Ussachzevsky, Leuning, Roger Sessions |
| Music from the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center was mainly composed on what instrument? | RCA Mark II electronic music synthesizer |
| The Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center was founded by a grant from what foundation? | Rockafeller |
| The Mark II Sound Synthesizer was operated using the _____________________________ method similar to a player piano. | Punch card |
| Otto Luening and Valdimir Ussachevsky were professors at what university? | Columbia University |
| Otto Luening’s composition Low Speed uses recorded improvisations of a ______________________________ that are to be played back and performed over in a live setting. | Flute improvisation |
| Milton Babbitt’s work Philomel uses the compositional technique of ______________________________, a style that seeks to structure and control every element of pitch, rhythm, dynamics and articulation. | Serialism |
| Steve Reich is one of the pioneers of musical ______________________________. | Minimalism |
| Steve Reich’s particular style of composing used in such pieces as Come Out, and Pendulum Music involves repetitions of sound that goes in and out of ______________________________. | Phase |
| Minimalism is described as a compositional practice that relies heavily on ______________________________. | Repetition |
| Reich stated, “I do not mean the process of composition, but rather pieces of music that are, literally, _____________________________. | Processes |
| What is the occupation of the person whose voice is heard in the composition It’s Gonna Rain? | Preacher |
| Steve Reich is originally from ______________________________. | New York |
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