Western Classical 2 Music Spider Charts

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Western Classical 2 Music Spider Charts
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Augmentation (adding notes) gradually
Diminution (taking away notes) gradually
Interlocking Melodies or rhythms
Ostinato (repeating pattern)
Imitation / Canon
Discovered 1950s - tape splicing and playing two
tapes at the same time one at a slightly slower
speed
Change the rhythm gradually
Techniques
Looping
Change the pitch gradually
Add or take away instruments
Minimalism
Phase Shifting
Short Phrases
Can be Aleotoric (music of Chance)
Structure
Composers
Gradual Changes in texture
American
Layering
Heterophonic
Philip Glass
Terry Riley
Steve Reich
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Discords
Very Large orchestra but can be used very thinly
Can be Chromatic based
Dissonant (clashing notes)
No clear sense of Metre (changing time signatures
throughout music
No notes may be repeated in the first tune
Atonal
No lyrical (singable tunes) melodies
Disjunct melodies (lots of big jumps)
Serialism
The first row is called the Prime Order
Retrograde (write note row backwards)
Structure
Composers
Berg
Inversion (write note row upside down
12 tone note row
Berio
Schoenberg
Retrograde Inversion (upside down and backwards)
Transpose (raise note row up or down 1 or more
pitches
Verticalised (some pitches of note row used as
chords
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Portamento (pitch sliding)
Whistling
Humming
Melismatic
Vocal techniques
Consonant sounds
Syllabic
Vowel sounds
Multitracking
Music notated on a Graphic Score
See Club Dance Remix all words apply
Uses everyday resources - musical and
non-musical to create unique sound worlds
Play instruments in strange ways
Techniques
Electronic
Experimental
Collage
John Cage
Bowing
Scraping
Composers
Composers
Meridith Monk
Plucking
Metallic
Trevor Wishart
David Bedford
Stockhausen
Over blowing
Percussive