Atonality

In this discussion, I will be debating the age-old question of the academic fine arts societies: what is art? I will also go a step further and ask, what is music? To begin to answer these questions, we must go to the source of art and music: God. When we observe creation, we also begin to learn about our likeness to His image not just physically, but cognitively in our desire and ability to compose. I will then discuss why art exists, and how a work of art can be classified as such. As evidence…

Webern’s trichords contain a major seventh with a tri-tone, making these chords extremely dissonant to emphasize the atonality. It is noticeable that dynamics are important to Webern because he utilizes them frequently with his two note figures to get the specific sound he desires. The trichords Webern implemented have a fortissimo dynamic marking with the exception of measures…

Atonality: Total abandoment of tonality. Music moves from one level of dissonance to another without areas of relaxation. Avant-grade: French term that refers to new styles and techniques in the arts, especially in the early 20th century. Serialism: Method…

Jessika Grindstaff October 3, 2014 History of Jazz The Evolution of Free Jazz Free Jazz is a form of jazz that involves collective improvisation without a set chord or rhythm structure. This type of jazz was born during the social, political and civil movements’ era, the sixties. There are many reasons that free jazz was formed, the main one being the limitations in other forms such as bebop, big band and swing. Free jazz was influenced by the works of Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman and John…

Since 1924, many critics found it inevitable to decline Wilson’s label of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel as “a phantasmagoria of incident that had no dominating intention to endow it with unity and force. In short, one of the chief weaknesses of This Side of Paradise is that it is really not about anything: its intellectual and moral content amounts to little more than a gesture—a gesture of indefinite revolt.” (The Shores of Light) But This Side Paradise does consist of a unity and force;…

Elizabeth Perez 1 Dr. Elizabeth Swanson Music of The 21st Century 5 April 2017 THE MUSIC of BENJAMIN BRITTEN The tradition of classical music performance became stronger during the post war years. Audiences grew, government support in many nations rose, schools of…

Jazz History Concert Report The date of the concert was October 5, 2016 and the title of the concert is “Experimental Improvisation with: Kjell Nordeson & Peter Kuhn”. The concert was performed in Mesa College Music building. Peter Kuhn had three instruments with him a bass clarinet, saxophone, and a Bb Clarinet. He used the bass clarinet and the saxophone during his first piece, and the clarinet on the second piece. Kjell Nordeson was on the drum but had a lot of instruments with him.…

Chapter 10 ?Mabel Daniels?s Place in American Composition? Mabel Daniels and her work mirror many of the important themes of her time, reflecting shifts in American society and culture from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries. Profound and rapid changes in technology and lifestyle provoked a range of responses from embracing the avant-garde to resisting it. In Chapter 1 I argued Daniels?s importance to the history of American music. While many of her works are powerful and merit…