Atonality

Luigi Russolo, a futurist painter, portrayed his ideology of great enlargement of sounds in music as an art with noises as a source in The Art of Noise. The Art of Noise was a letter written to a futurist composer Balilla Pratella where Russolo expressed his belief and intention of creating “Musical Noises”. As people awakened from a period when “life was nothing but silence” and experienced the acoustic pleasure through a recipe of varying sounds, music was created and brought to our lives. As

strings. Ives is often credited with discovering a couple of elements associated with music as we know it now. In the Unanswered question, most of these aspects are present. They include spatial music, quartertone harmony, polyrhythm, free dissonance, atonality, polytonality, and quartertone harmony. The Unanswered Question is an example of a concept that Ives envisioned- Universal Religion. Different layers of sound are heard throughout the piece. The meaning of

Alex Worland Music History Fall 2015 Dr. Lipori 11/13/15 Gustav Mahler Gustav Mahler was born in Kalisce, Bohemia on July 7th 1860 to Bernhard and Marie Mahler. He was born into a modest home as his family was not of royal descent. After the Jewish Emancipation allowing Jewish people of Europe the freedom to move, his family moved to the nearby town of Iglau, halfway between Vienna and Prague. Here he grew up amongst band concerts and parades, both of which he was deeply connected to. At the age

nothing relate to romantic style. It is dissonant as I said before, and creates lots of tensions but it does not resolve, and I feel like that is one big thing that makes it different from classical music, and obviously, it applies many uses of atonality. Even at the beginning scene (00:06:02) that when Marion spends her lunchtime with Sam, the music at there is not like typical love theme music. People usually relate strings with love theme; however, I feel like the strings playing at this scene

Kimberlyn Snoddy Dr. Holly Powe MUS 101-WA1 20 June 2016 Alban Berg Not a musical prodigy from birth, but a gifted child, Alban Berg was an innovative musician bringing forth ideas that would be later seen in music after his death. Berg had somewhat of a troubled childhood, but that did not stop him from becoming a successful musician. He was also apart of the Second Viennese school. Alban Berg was a composer whose music broke tradition and is remembered because of it. Born in Vienna, Alban Berg

The modernist style would have only distracted from the plot line instead of adding to it because of its emphasis on unresolved dissonance disorienting the average listener. The audience expects certain aspects of music to occur. They naturally desire to hear certain forms, harmonic rules and guidelines, or the tonal music their ears are accustomed to hearing. These ideas are still present in some cases, but with the absence of tonality and a larger focus on dissonance, the audience can have trouble

Even though the “The Elf King” by Franz Schubert and “The Moonspot” from Moonstruck Pierrot by Arnold Schoenberg sound extremely different, there are many connections between the pieces. These two German lieders both successfully foreshadow and enhance their poetic texts with creative musical devices. From the very beginning of both pieces, listeners can sense the entire direction of the story line by the way they sound. While the musical devices that the composers use are similar, the way they use

Les Sis The 1920’s were an extraordinary time in Paris. The war had ended. Musicians, artist, writers, poets, film-makers and choreographers were friends and influenced one another. There was a sense of optimism and excitement. Composers were finding inspiration in popular sources, circus music and jazz which was being heard for the first time. Les Six were a group of six young French musicians during this time; Arthur Honegger, Darius Mihaud, Francis Poulenc, Georges Auric, Louis Durey and Germaine

Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-) Penderecki's music has always been full of vitality, supplemented with an intimacy when in regards to his formation. An NPR producer described his music as being "on the front lines of the battle between the forces of atonality and lyricism". Although starting out as a avant-garde composer with progressive concepts, Penderecki later abandoned that trend and looked back at Romanticism and even Bach for compositional inspiration. However, this does not signify a transformation

This period was the longest period of musical history. Most of the music in the medieval period were related and dedicated to religion.   Many of the instruments used were ancestors of the modern musical instruments. The lute, the string instrument, a popular instrument of the medieval time period, eventually evolved into guitars. Recorders, also from this period, is one of the oldest woodwind and the forefather of the flute and clarinet. The early music of this period was monophonic, it only had