Music 109: Notes on Experimental Music

Index

index ABA forms, 33 acoustic exploration, 90 acoustic lens, 99 Adzenyah, Abraham, 117 Aeolian Harp, The (Cowell), 128 African drum patterns, 117 Afternoon of a Faun (Debussy), 33–37 aftersound, 133 Alberman, David, 195 Allegro Barbaro (Bartok), 129 alpha waves, 52–53 alternating current, frequency of, 101 amplification, Wolfman as homage to, 72–73 amplitude modulation, 105–6 anarchy (explained), 195–96 Anderson, Laurie, Handphone Pieces, 99–100 Andrade, Levine, 195 Angels and Insects (Dunn), 152–53 Anima 7 (Kosugi), 188 antennas, large-loop, 151 Arabic Numerals (Any Integer) for Henry Flynt (Young), 122–23 Arditti, Irvine, 195 Arditti String Quartet, 183, 195, 197–98 Argo (ship), 120 Aria (Cage), 9–11 aria (defined), 9, 161 Ars Electronica Festival, 148–49 Ascending and Descending (Escher), 96 Ashbery, John, 164 Ashley, Robert, 86, 172, 186; Automatic Writing, 171–73; Celestial Excursions, 160; Dust, 160–62; Fourth of July, 73; Love Is a Good Example, 173–74; Making of Concrete, The, 160, 162; Perfect Lives, 158–60; In Sara, Mencken Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women, 170–71; She Was a Visitor, 174–75; String Quartet Describing the Motions of Large Real Bodies, 188–93; String Quartet Score, Front and Back, 191–93; Wolfman, 70–74 Atlas Eclipticalis (Cage), 18–22 atmospherics. See sferics audio mixing bus (defined), 191 Auschwitz, 175 204 : i n d e x Automatic Writing (Ashley), 171–73 babies, universal sound reflexes in, 173 Bach, Johann Sebastian, 184; chorales, 114; Goldberg Variations , 180; Mass in B minor, 62; Two-Part Inventions, 178; Well-Tempered Clavier, The, 136, 138 BACH theme, 197 Balinese irrigation systems, 74 Band, Heinrich, 76 bandoneon, 76–77 Banshee, The (Cowell), 128 Barlow, Jon, 135 Barth, John, Once Upon a Time, 132 Barthes, Roland, Le vaisseau Argo, quotation, 120 Bartok, Bela: Allegro Barbaro, 129; Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta, 134 bats, 84, 87 Beethoven, Ludwig van, 170; Grosse Fuge, 182–83; Symphony No. 7, 113 Behrman, David, 62, 70, 104; Canons, 70; Figure in a Clearing, 82; Fishing for Complements, 83; On the Other Ocean, 82; Runthrough, 77–80; Unforseen Events, 82–84; Wave Train, 80–81; Witch Grass, 83 Bell Labs, 94–98 Berberian, Cathy, 9–10 Berio, Luciano, 6 Bernstein, Leonard, and Cage’s Atlas Eclipticalis, 21–22 Bielecki, Bob, 99 bioacoustics, 152 bio-spectrum, acoustical, 152 Black Rider (Wilson), 164 Blue Suede (Tenney), 94–95 bonks, 150, 152 Bösendorfer Imperial piano, 139 Boulanger, Nadia, 1, 113–14 “Boulangerie,” 1 Boulez, Pierre, 122, 143 bowing, 191; extreme techniques, 196 Brainard, Joe, I Remember, 100, 166 brain waves, 44 Brandeis Chamber Chorus, 27, 31, 37 Brandeis Library, Electronic Music Studio, 52 Braque, Georges, 94 Braxton, Anthony, 164 Brecht, George, Motor Vehicle Sundown (Event), 55 Brown, Carolyn, 5 Brown, Earle, 21, 27, 54; From Here, 33, 37–42 Brown, N. O., 173 Brown, Trisha, 89 Bruce, Neely, 62 Burdocks (Wolff), 121–24 Burdocks Festival, 122 Burgin, Richard, 47 Burroughs, William, 173 i n d e x : 205 cadential figure, 154 Cage, John, 5, 14, 27, 44, 46–51, 56–69, 140; Aria, 9–11; Atlas Eclipticalis, 18–22; Cartridge Music, 46, 56–61; on Charles Ives, 3; Concert for Piano and Orchestra, 9; Empty Words, 169–70; First Construction (In Metal), 34–35; Fontana Mix, 8–10; Indeterminacy, 12–13; Music for Amplified Toy Pianos, 131–36; Music of Changes, 16–18, 66; Music Walk with Dancers, 5; and politics in music, 180; and prepared pianos , 141; Rozart Mix, 53–55, 61; Ryoanji, 58, 67–69, 195–96; and S & H Green Stamps, 123; and suicide, 174; and surrealism , 171; Thirty Pieces for String Quartet, 195–96; Valentine Out of Season, A, 128–31 Calder, Alexander, 38 Calvino, Italo: Italian Folk Tales, 178; Mr. Palomar, 80 canon, 118–19 Canons (Behrman), 70 Canon X (Nancarrow), 142–43 Carter, Elliott, 183; String Quartet No. 5, 3–4 Cartridge Music (Cage), 46, 56–61 Casio sampler, 175 Castro, Shelly, 82 causality, 14 Celestial Excursions (Ashley), 160 chains, clanking, 128–29 chamber music (described), 50–51, 74–75 Chambers (Lucier), 91–93 chance procedures, 9–11 chant, 173 ch’in, 24–26 choreography, 165–68 Christ, 170 Christian Wolff in Cambridge (Feldman ), 30–33 Christo, Running Fence, 146 chromatic tuning, 195 Chronos Kristalla (Young), 198–99 church modes, 156–57 circle of fifths, 109–10, 136 city sounds, 8 Clapping Music (Reich), 116–17 clef (defined), 124–25 click languages, 179 clicks, 186...