Modern Music

• 1. How is the music made in the video?
• 2. What did you observe about the sounds around

you?
• 3. What comes to your mind when you hear the

words electronic and chance music?
• Defined as music that involves
electronic processing of the
output(I,e., through speakers).
• Musical instruments includes
synthesizers and electronic, as well
as recordings, tape recordings
and editing and processing done
digitally using computers.
• Composers after World War II
were searching for new modes of
musical expression, and they
turned to developments in
technology and electronics in
finding new sound production
tools.
• These technological
developments are the
audio frequency
oscillators, which first
appeared in the 1920s.
These instruments are
wave generators that
produce pure tones.
These include
electromechanical and
electronic musical
instruments specifically
the electronic organ.
• Another development
involves new
instruments such as
theremin – a
sonophonic sound
producing instrument
invented by Leon
Theremin in the 1920s.
• With the development of the recording
industry after the war, more recording
studios were built; and with the
technology of tape recording, the
medium has become a compositional
device.
• In 1948, musical compoitions created
with edited magnetic tape collages
began. This was called musique
concrete.
• Through the pioneering work of Pierre
Schaeffer and Pierre Henry at the
Radiodiffusion-Television Francaise,
people edited and processed tape-
recorded natural sounds, vocalizations,
noises produced by humans, other
conceivable sounds.
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One of the most prominent
German composer of the 20th
century. He made
groundbreaking work in the
field of electronic music. His
composition “Gesang der
Junglinge” (Song of the Youth) is
considered one of the
masterpieces of electronic music.
This composition integrates
human voice with electronic
sound. The work is also known
for its use of spatiality, which is
the use of multiple channels
(speakers) In the exposition of
sound.
• The Father of electronic music.
• His compositions, which
emphasized timbre and
rhythmn, were made of sound
masses. His music is considered
as “amusical” but for him, music
is an organized sound. Thus his
sound masses are to be
considered music. Verase was
a composer ahead of his time,
and just like other composers
who have crossed the
boundaries of time, he was
both admired and rejected.
 Also called aleatory music. Chance is given to a performer in
the realization and performance of the composition.
 This genre opens itself to improvisation by simply giving

directions and guide as how the music is to be played.
 Chance music does not pay much attention to its form.
 Its musical score shows unique notation, which may suggest pitch
and duration of improvisation.
 It also indicates movement and motion, which the performer is

required to do while playing the music.
 One of the innovative composers
of 20th century Western Music.
 Born on September 5, 1912 in
New York City.
 His unorthodox style in
composition influenced composers
after his time.
 He studied under Arnold
Schoenberg .
 As a composer he created works
for dance as he collaborated with
choreographer and dancer
Merce Cunninghan, with whom he
had a long-term creative and
personal relationship.
 Cage started composing with the 12 tone technique,
which was introduced by his teacher.
 One of his experiment was “to prepare” a piano.
 In this task, cage would place screws, bolts and rubber
strips between piano strings to produce rather different
timbre than the usual sound of piano strings.
• .
 He also did musique concrete. It was an objective for him to

introduce new music outside the bounds of traditional
Western music.
 Cage is known for his composition “4’33”. The goal of this
composition is to let his audience listen to the ambient sound
and its spontaneity, instead of the sound created by the
instrument.
 Thus, this silence of the instrument gave way to the sound that
was heard around the audience. This sound made by the
audience and the environment is then the music that the
audience should pay attention to.
 Cage’s composition also include “Imaginary landscape no.
4” for 12 radios tuned randomly, 24 performers and a
conductor.
 John Cage died at the age of 80 on August 12, 1992 in

New York City

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• 1. How is the music made in the video?

• 2. What did you observe about the sounds around

• 3. What comes to your mind when you hear the

 This genre opens itself to improvisation by simply giving

 Chance music does not pay much attention to its form.

 It also indicates movement and motion, which the performer is

 He also did musique concrete. It was an objective for him to

 John Cage died at the age of 80 on August 12, 1992 in

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