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modernist
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reject past/popular
tonality = regressive |
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postmodernist
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SYNTHESIZED past & present
combined serious + popular art not serious |
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postmodernist architecture
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Phillip C Johnson
- modern: Seagram bldg, Shenzhen press tower - postmodern: AT&T bldg, HaasHaus |
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postmodernist art
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Wood: American Gothic
Kuhn: superimpose his face on American Gothic |
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postmodernist sculpture & design
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Cadillac Ranch in Texas
ironic symbol for American Dream and 'freedom' |
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postmodernist in music
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modernist = elite
hybrid styles: traditional/modern |
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postmodernist in music: Thea Musgrave
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references to GLUCK'S ORFEO but freely mixes atonality
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postmodernist in music: Frederic Rzewski
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VARIATIONS on popular tunes <=> Bach/Beethoven also wrote variations
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postmodernist in music: Tania Leon
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Havana Conversatory (Classical)
steeped in Cuban folk music |
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postmodernist in music: Tania Leon's A la par "Guaguanco" mvt 2
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for piano + percussion
African-Cuban dance + atonality + dense counterpoint bass line rhythmic figure = Cuban dance idiom other lines = European modernism 'on par with' - tonal/atonal, regular meter/irregular meter, serious/playful |
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postmodernist in music: Avro Part
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Estonian
early modern styles 1970s -> Medieval/Renaissance vocal music TINTINNABALI (little bells) -> one voice appergiated triads, 2nd voice move in diatonic steps |
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postmodernist in music: Avro Part's Seven Magnificent Antiphones "O Weisheit"
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mixed chamber choir
German texts ancient + modern elements - sacred text, chant-like, tonal - overtones, MAJOR + MINOR, XMATIC |
