Edgard Varese Edgard Varèse was a 20th century conductor and composer born on December 22, 1883 in Paris, France, but eventually immigrating to the United States in 1915 and eventually becoming a U.S. citizen in 1926. He experimented with taped music, electronic instruments and technology. He is considered an innovator due to his use of early electronic musical instruments and for utilizing new techniques in sound production. (Estrerlla N.D) Edgard was classed as a pioneer of the avant-garde movement
EDGARD VARÈSE: ORGANIZER OF SOUND Edgard Varèse, a French composer born in 1883, was a leader in the realm of electronic music, and one of a group of musicians important in the time immediately following WWII. These, often called, avant-garde musicians challenged the public and other musicians to think about music in new ways, including incorporating electronic elements into acoustic compositions, creating entirely electronic compositions and reinventing the way acoustic music
Influential Composers Of Early 20th Century missing works cited Zoltan Kodaly, Edgar Varese, Igor Stravinsky.Three foreign-born composers whose output ranges from unobtrusively important to riot inducing works.They encompass music’s three principles: education, exploration, experimentation. Deemed “Hungary’s greatest composer and music pedagogue” (Jeter) Zoltan Kodaly, was born December 16, 1882.As a child, Kodaly taught himself piano, violin, cello, and voice.Later, he pursued Composition/Education
Density 21.5 Edgard Varèse’s Density 21.5 for unaccompanied flute was composed in 1936 (revised in 1944) at the request of George Barrère for the première of his new platinum flute.Inspired by the flute’s capabilities, Varèse sought to showcase the platinum instrument’s full range of sound and explore its timbral capacity. Density is a monophonic work that is characterized by extreme dynamics, angular motives, timbral variety, and complex rhythms. During the span of sixty-one measures, Varèse exploits
featuring images, colored lighting and music and sounds called the "Poème Electronique." Some of the greatest artistic minds of the twentieth century were involved in its creation, including the architect Le Corbusier (1887-1965) and the composer Edgard Varèse (1883-1965). But most importantly, the Philips Pavilion represented an important artistic phenomenon through its synthesis of architecture, visual media and music. The purpose of the pavilion was to exhibit the technology of the Philips corporation
transmuted the classification of art, predominantly with her channel of communicati... ... middle of paper ... ... and Chinese Cultures Edited by Fran Martin, Larissa Heinrich Space Calculated in Seconds: The Philips Pavilion, LeCorbusier, Edgard Varèse Buildings for Music: The Architect, the Musician, and the Listener from the seventeenth century to present day By Michael Forsyth Peter Eisenman: Feints Architecture and Psychoanalysis: Peter Eisenman and Jacques Lacan Tracing Eisenman:
1. Write two pages on the life and type of music of Philip Glass. Why do you think his music became popular? Philip Glass, A popular musician and music composer, he is also an innovative instrumentalist. Philip Glass was born January 31st, 1937 in Baltimore, US (Strickland, pp.4). During the 20th century, he is one of the most famous musicians. When he was a teenager, Philip Glass learned the flute. Philip Glass is a genius of music. When he was 15 years old, he went to the University of Chicago
What is Surrealism as we know it today? The true definition for Surrealism is: a movement in art and literature that formulated in Paris in the 1920s, which developed out of dada, characterized by the evocative juxtaposition of incongruous images in order to include unconscious and dream elements. The goal of this such movement was to allow artist to paint without boundaries. Surrealism allowed artist to use their imagination to paint whatever came to mind, most surrealist paintings included unrealistic
Experimentation in Music For thousands of years, music has been a part of people’s lives and has evolved through many different forms over time. Music is the art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre (American Heritage). One important component of analyzing music is whether it has musical value. In other words, music does not have to be organized sound or produced by instruments. This is
The History of Western Music Music has been around since the dawn of time, ever since man first inhabited this planet we have learned to communicate in ways other then conventional speaking. Different Cultures all have there own specific way of communicating through music. Music is basically broken into two specific groups Eastern Music and Western Music. Eastern music is mainly derived from the orient and India. While, Western music first emerged from Europe. Western music has developed in many