MUSIC 240 - Introduction to Experimental Music I

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Bard College

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Integrated Arts Taking the radical innovations of such revolutionary figures as Henry Cowell, Charles Ives, and Edgard Varèse early in the 20th century as its starting point, this course examines the experimental music tradition in the United States and elsewhere. In addition to studying the body of work this tradition has produced and discussing its aesthetic and philosophic underpinnings, students are encouraged to actively realize and perform works by the composers and artists studied. Possible performance projects include Ives's quartertone pieces; Cowell's piano music; graphic scores by Brown, Cardew, and Feldman; chance and intermediate scores of Cage; live electronic pieces by Behrman, Lucier, or Tudor; the realization of a Nancarrow player-piano score on Disklavier; event pieces by Fluxus, Kusogi, and Paik; Oliveros's meditation pieces; phase pieces by Steve Reich; notated and text pieces by Rzewski; and game pieces by Wolff and Zorn.

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4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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