Schoenberg Three Piano Pieces, Op. 11, No.

1 (1909)- Intro to 12 tone

Schoenberg Five Pieces for Orchestra, III. Farben (1909)- Klangfarbenmelodie

Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire, No. 8 Nacht (1912)- Sprechstimme; Numerology;

Passacaglia; rhythmic diminution;

Schoenberg String Quartet No. 3, Mvts. I and III (1927)- Using a tone row to
create accompaniment chords

Webern Symphony, Op. 21 (both movements) (1928)- Hexachordal

Commonatoriality (tone row made of hexachords with identical pitch class sets

Webern Concerto for Nine Instruments, Mvt. I (1934)-

Berg Violin Concerto (1935)- More lenient use of 12 tone, leads to a more tonal
sound; Est ist Genung

Messiaen Four Rhythm Studies: Mode of Durations and Intensities (1950)TOTAL serialism (pitches sound in same register, at same dynamic, in same rhythm)

Cage Third Construction (1941)- Numerical permutations, new percussion

instruments

Cage Sonatas and Interludes (1948)- prepared piano

Cage Music of Changes (1951)- I Ching, used to determine pitches

Cage Imaginary Landscape No. 5 (1952)- Tape recorders; indeterminacy

Cage Water Walk (1959)- He did it on TV?? More indeterminacy

Varse Ionisation (1931)- Percussion Ensemble; futurism; timbre as central

formal element;

Varse Pome lectronique (1958)- Electronic music; specifically written to be

premiered in that specific hall (1958 World Fair)

Penderecki Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima (1960)- Graphic notation

Crumb Black Angels (1970)- electric string quartet; extended techniques;

numerology

Ligeti Atmospheres (1961)- Sound mass; sonorism- Prevalence of texture and

general sound over individual melody

Ligeti Etude No. 1: Disorder (1985)- unaligned measures; rhythmic

disentigration; GOLDEN SECTION

Lutosawski Five Songs: No. 1, The Sea (1957)- Pitch Fields

Lutosawski Symphony No. 3 (1983)- Pitch Fields

Riley In C (1964)- controlled aleatoric: different cells, moving whenever the

performer wants

Reich Come Out (1966)- process music, overlapping recordings; phasing

Reich Piano Phase (1967)- process music; arranged for lots of different
instrument combos; very hard to perform live; phasing

Reich Clapping Music (1972)- process music; phasing

Reich Music for 18 Musicians (1976)- Move away from process, towards
minimalism. 80 minutes, really long

Anderson O Superman (1981)- Blur of popular and art music; video

performance

Adams The Chairman Dances (1985)- Minimalism

Lang Cheating, Lying, Stealing (1995)- Minimalism

Greenstein Change (2009)- minimalism

Important Terms, concepts, techniques, etc. (Post-serial first, by composer)

John Cage- Numerical permutation, prepared piano, indeterminacy, aleatoric

music(chance), I Ching
Varse- Futurism, electronic music, Philips Pavillion, Texture as primary formal
guideline(also w/ cage)

Penderecki- Sonorism, Sound mass, Graphic notation

Crumb- Extended techniques, palindromes, numerology, artistic score style

Ligeti- Sound mass, micropolyphony, complex rhythmic diminution, Golden

section
Lutoslawski- Pitch fields, aleatoric music
Reich- Phasing, process music, rhythmic permutation

Ades- Interval Cycles, Irrational Meter

Avant-Garde

Minimalism
Atonality

Chaconne
Controlled Aleatoric (Lutoslawski)

Expressionism- serialism
Integral Serialism

Pre-Serial Atonal analysis (Webern 5 movements for String Quartet)

Give Prime Form and Interval Vector for noted pitch sets; be able to compare sets
to each other

Serialism Essay

Is the 2nd Vienese school representative of a BREAK from tradition of the past, or

a continuation of it?
Argue either side in 1 or 2 paragraphs, using 4 Works by Schneberg,

Webern, and/or Berg to support.

Webern Symphony- 1st mvt is a canon, sonata form, 2nd mvt is theme and

variations
Arguments for breaking tradition- Serialism; atonality; lack of functional harmony;

new instrumentations;
Arguments for continuing tradition- desire to conform to formal skeletons

Post-Serialism Score ID and analysis

4 score excerpts, ID Title and Composer

Be able to explain techniques or concepts being used, and lump pieces in with

larger cultural movements

MAY be asked to ID another piece by the composer of a given excerpt