Classical music
Post on 14-Jan-2015
383 Views
Preview:
DESCRIPTION
Transcript
CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL MUSIC
Contemporary classical music can be Understood as belonging to the period
thatstarted in the mid- 1970s with the
retreat ofmodernism. However, the term may
also beemployed in a broader sense to refer
to allpost-1945 modern musical forms.
Generally "contemporary classical music" amounts to:
The modern forms of art music• The post-1945 modern forms of post-
tonal music(including serial music, electroacoustic music, musique concrète, experimental music, atonal music, minimalist music, etc.)
• the post-1975 forms of this music(including post-modern music, Spectral music, post-minimalism, sound art, etc.)
Movements
Modernismrefers generally to the significant departures in
musical language that occurred at or around the beginning of the 20th century, creating new understandings of harmonic, melodic, sonic, and rhythmic aspects of music.
Computer musicis a term that was originally used within academia to
describe a field of study relating to the applications of computing technology in music composition; particularly that stemming from the Western art music tradition.
Polystylism (eclecticism)is the use of multiple styles or techniques in
literature, art, film, or, especially, music, and is a postmodern characteristic.
• New Simplicity
was a stylistic tendency amongst some of the younger generation of German composers in the late 1970s and early 1980s, reacting against not only the European avant garde of the 1950s and 1960s, but also against the broader tendency toward objectivity found from the beginning of the twentieth century.
• New Complexity
is a term dating from the 1980s, principally applied to composers seeking a "complex, multi-layered interplay of evolutionary processes occurring simultaneously within every dimension of the musical material
• Post-minimalism
is a movement in painting and sculpture that began in the late 1960s.
Developments by medium
Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers andmusicians perform a dramatic work
combiningtext (called a libretto) and musical score,
usually in a theatrical setting.
Chamber
Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments
which traditionally could be accommodated in a
palace chamber.
ChoralChoral music refers to music which is sung by a choir. Each musical part is sung by two or morevoices.
Concert band
A concert is a live performance (typically of music) before an audience. The
performancemay be by a single musician, sometimes
then called a recital.
top related