Audio Examples for The Sense of Music

Part 7. Modern Period - High-Art Tradition

  1. Revolutionary Styles: Impressionism, Expressionism, and Primitivism

    1. Faun flute theme
    2. Faun violin theme
    3. Chords climb up
    4. Melody appears
    5. Chords purely as sounds
    6. Erwartung, first five phrases
    7. Chromatic scale
    8. Tone-row
    9. Twelve-tone composition

  2. Music of the Times

    1. Useless song
    2. March drum beat
    3. Instead of, instead of
    4. Call that old-fashioned love
    5. Lefthand ostinato figures
    6. Righthand melody
    7. First piano, measure 2
    8. Second piano, measure 6
    9. Eccentric eigth-note pattern, measure 33
    10. Exotic timbres, measures 87-88
    11. Second piano, measures 105-108
    12. Eight-bar chord progression
    13. Pizzicato chords
    14. Augmented second interval
    15. Lurching crescendos, violin and cello
    16. Horn intro melody
    17. O Rose
    18. Life destroy
    19. Horn half-step motion
    20. High melody, lower in stages
    21. Quick and rhythmic melody

  3. In America: Ives and Copland

    1. Hymn-like chords
    2. Atonal melody
    3. Tis the gift to be simple

  4. The Post-War Avant-garde

    1. Series of durations
    2. Assign sequence of durations
    3. Stinging
    4. From Circles
    5. From Erwatung
    6. Dissonant chord
    7. Basic pattern, women and organ
    8. Second pattern, marimbas
    9. Rhythmic augmentation
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