1.3 - MODERN MUSIC

• Modern Music - Music of the 20th century has brought many changes and influenced the succeeding styles of music up to now because of technology.
• Electronic Music - It is defined as music that involves electronic processing of the output
• Electronic Music - This includes musical instruments such as synthesizers and electronic instruments, as well as recordings, tape recordings, and editing and processing done digitally using computers.
• Electronic Music - 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.
• Synthesizer - are capable of producing sounds far beyond the range and versatility of conventional musical instruments like the guitar or violin.
• Synthesizer - were machines that electronically generated and modified sounds with the use of a computer.
• Theremin - creates electromagnetic fields that create sounds at different pitches when the musician moves his or her hands around it.
• Theremin - create a high, warbling sound most famous for its use in 1950s horror and science fiction movies
• Musique Concrete - the composer is able to experiment with different sounds that cannot be produced by regular musical instruments.
• Musique Concrete - For the composers, these "sounds, " even when manipulated, were natural and real and were considered representative of the natural world.
• Karlheinz Stockhausten - is one of the most prominent German composers of the 20th century.
• Karlheinz Stockhausten - his music was initially met with resistance due to its heavily atonal content with practically no clear melodic or rhythmic sense.
• Edgard Varese - is called the Father of Electronic Music.
• Edgard Varese - He was considered as innovative French- born composer. His compositions, which emphasized timbre and rhythm, were made of "sound masses."
• Edgard Varese - His music is considered by the uninitiated as "amusical, " but for him, music is an organized sound.
• Chance Music - also known as Aleatoric music
• Chance Music - refers to a style which the piece always sounds differently at every performance because of the random techniques of production, including the use of ring modulators or natural elements that become a part of the music.
• John Cage - is one of the innovative composers of 20th century Western music.
• John Cage - is known for his composition 4'33.
• 4'33 - This is a work for any instrument wherein the performer or instrumentalist would do nothing with his or her instrument for four minutes and 33 seconds.