Serious Music

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Serious Music

• Exploring Music 8
• Mr. Corey

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Serious Music

• Serious music is concert music that appeals to a
  more select audience than popular music it has
  qualities that enables the music to last

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Important Terms

• Sacred (religious), secular (non-religious)
• Virtuoso a highly skilled performer
• Avant Garde one who writes ahead of his time,
  experimental

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Trends in American Music

• Refer to chart showing trends of the development
  of serious music in America

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Avant Garde Music

• Charles Ives (1874-1954) Connecticut
• Avant garde techniques using cluster chords and
  dissonance
  
• Variations on America
• Electronic Music
• Use of computer, tape recorder, synthesizer
• Experiments in new sounds

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American-styled Music

• Ferde Grofe (1892-1972) New York
• Use of American geographical locations in his
  music
  
• Grand Canyon Suite
• Aaron Copand (1900-1990) New York
• Use of jazz and folk music in his serious
  compositions
  
• A Lincoln Portrait