Ism Project Mr. Read 4th hour Sara, Ivan, and Gewoin

1. .SG.IR.GI.

2.  Bach
 Beethoven
 Schubert
 Same mediums, general chord
progressions, and emotions behind the
music. Excepted by everyone as cultured and
tasteful art.

3.  Group of innovative composers
 Not interested in traditional ideas,
techniques, or subject matter.
 Pioneered brand new music mediums. Often
focusing more on structure and ambient
sounds and less on traditional cord
progression.

4.  Dissatisfaction and irritation with traditional
stale compositions.
 New technologies
 More organic and sophisticated motive
 Over glorification of the composer,.
 Moving away from traditional music’s
 harmony and rhythm.

5.  JOHN CAGE
 ARONLD SCHENBURG
 KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN
 STEVE REISCH

6.  Unstructured Piano Quartets
 Household Objects
 Percussion Orchestra
 Prepared Piano
 Prepared Piano: Muted Strings
 Perfected strings Quartets

8.  Born: September, 5 1912
 Attended Pomona College and dropped out
 Went to Europe, began to study music
 Came back and began exploration of ambient
sound and silence.

9.  A professor told him that if he didn’t
compose the “right” way, using the “right”
chord progressions, and the “right” melodic
tendencies, he would never be a successful
composer.
 “I can’t understand why people are frightened
of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.”
–John Cage, decided to move on to those new
ideas.

10.  Contributed to many art pieces from other
movements with ambient scores.
 Choreographers
 Composers
 Designers
 Painters
 Film Directors

11.  Music by chance
 “A roll of the dice”
 Organic sounds of the city, or of an object,
arranged to capture the purest essence of the
environment itself.

12.  4’33”
 WaterWalk
 Chess
 Sonatas and Interludes.

13.  Most Famous Piece
 At 4 minutes and 33 seconds long, 4’33” was
originally performed by DavidTudor, in a very
formal western concert hall setting.
 “Confronted with silence in a setting that we
cannot control, and where we do not expect
this kind of event, we might have any number
of responses. Baffled, bored agitated,
cultured, philosophical, or even smug
..because we “get it” –John Cage

14.  http://youtu.be/HypmW4Yd7SY

15.  John Cage and Marcel Duchamp were
actuallyGREAT friends
 Exchanged ideas and thoughts on music and
sound
 Constructed pieces together

16.  Duchamp and Cage wired their chess board
so that each move would activate or cut off a
live instrument playing elsewhere: thus
creating a classic aleatoric piece.

17.  http://youtu.be/VdWS4g6Xv8k

18.  http://youtu.be/SSulycqZH-U

19.  Created Prepared Piano early in his career,
but didn’t get around to actually using it until
he left Chicago.
 Composed sonatas traditionally, and then
used prepared piano to transform the piece
 The buffered strings and muted sounds were
meant to symbolize his voice in the art
community

21.  http://youtu.be/pUTXNxFvjDw - II
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fPSz-
o4zzY&feature=share&list=PL6DED030794E
35EBC – Full Sonata
 http://youtu.be/kc3-C7Lnzh0 -Visual
demonstration by David Greilsammer

24.  He was born September 13, 1874
 Died on July 13, 1951
 Raised inVienna Austria
 Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian composer associated
with the expressionist movement. He developed the 12
tone technique a widely influential compositional method
 He learned to play cello and violin. Dad died when he was
16. Took a job as a bank clerk for extra money
 He studied at the Realschule inVienna
 Arnold lived in Austria, later moved to Berlin and then
California.
 Served in the Army duringWWI- later migrated to the US

25.  JS Bach inspired Schoenberg throughout his
life and his era.
 He was also influenced by Oskar Adler who
encouraged him to play cello.
 Alexander von Zemlinsky became his friend
and taught him composition
 He was an original and contributed SO much
to music in the 20th century and it still lives on
today.

26.  He learned to play violin as a child.
 At the age of 9, he was already composing
pieces for two violins.

27.  His early works which were reminiscent of
Johannes Brahms and Richard Strauss are
disliked to this day because they were written
by his infamous hand.
 One of his well liked pieces was Opus 31

28.  Atonality
 Chromatic scale
 Developing variation
 motifs

29.  TwelveTone method
 This method ensured that all twelve notes of
the chromatic scale as often as one another
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZdsOHR
DMEA
 Most well known works

30.  Arnold Schoenberg changed the game for
music composition
 He invented the 12 tone technique which is a
method of musical composition
 The technique ensures that all 12 notes of the
chromatic scale are sounded as often as one
another in a piece of music while
deemphasizing any one note, thus all 12
notes are equally important