4925243
| Question | Answer |
| Composed | 1965 |
| Genre | Concert piece or music theatre |
| Resources | Solo soprano voice |
| Aleatoric music | Where the performer decides certain elements |
| Features that indicate it was composed after 1945 | Aleatoric music Graphic non-specific score No set pulse Experimental use of voice No set structure Atonal Theatrical elements |
| Form | No set form Climax in the middle Feeling of a beginning and end Through composed Ends by falling chromatically and lowering pitch and dynamic |
| Tonality | Atonal Notated sections don't follow a set key Highly chromatic Pitch is approximate and indeterminate |
| Rhythm | Approximate or unmeasured 10 second units a result of the performer rather than determined by the composer himself |
| Melody | Fragments of notated melody are separated by alternative singing techniques Frequent interjections with extended vocal techniques Whispering, laughing, clicking, coughing, gasping sense of melody were pitches are sustained sudden flourishes and scales Writing is angular |
| Setting of text | Sprechstimme Syllabic and melisimatic broken up words short words repeated quickly in random order words and phonetic sounds are interrupted dental tremolo- flutter tonging words and phonetic sounds are interrupted |
| Harmony and texture | monophonic no accompaniment, so no harmony |
| Metre | No set pulse or metre since no time signature is defined time and duration defined by 10 second units |
| Other | No traditional dynamics but specific descriptive instructions extended vocal techniques |
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