2. Contemporary
Composers Phillip Glass George
Crumb
Milton John Milton Steve Reich
Krzysztof Byron Cage Jr.
Penderecki Babbitt
3. Contemporary Styles
1. Serialism- is a method or technique of composition that uses a series
of values to manipulate different musical elements
2. 12 Tone-The technique is a means of ensuring that all 12 notes of the
chromatic scale are sounded as often. This technique was developed by
Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951)These 12 pitches
perform as one another in a piece of music, while preventing the
emphasis of any one note. They are ordered in 12 pitches.
3. Minimalism- The American Form of Serialism based on manipulating
factors to ensure a change in elements.
4. Krzysztof Eugeniusz
Penderecki
- Born 23 November 1933
- Polish composer and conductor
- Best known for Polish composer and
conductor
- Among his best known works are his -
Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, St.
Luke Passion, Polish Requiem
5. Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
A musical composition for 52 string instruments
composed in 1960
Took third prize at the Grzegorz Fitelberg Composers' Competition in
Katowice in 1960
The piece swiftly attracted interest around the world and made its young
composer famous
6. ● John Milton Cage Jr.
●
September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992
American composer, music theorist, writer,
and artist
Cage was a pioneer of the prepared piano,
Cage invented the Classical contemporary
technique of using chance to determine the
placements of notes in a piece.
7. 4'33
Cage is perhaps best known for this 1952 composition
Performed in the absence of deliberate sound;The content of the
composition is not "four minutes and 33 seconds of silence," rather the
sounds of the environment heard by the audience during performance
8. Milton Byron Babbitt
● May 10, 1916 – January 29, 2011
● American composer, music theorist,
and teacher
● He is particularly noted for his serial
and electronic music
9. A Waltzer in the House
● Soprano and vibraphone
● Setting of a poem by Stanley Kunitz
● Milton was alive from 1916-2011
10. George Crumb
Born October 24, 1929
American composer of contemporary classical music
He is noted as an explorer of unusual timbres,
alternative forms of notation, and extended
instrumental and vocal techniques
11. Philip glass
● He was born January 31, 1937
● His music is also often controversially described as minimalist,
● is an American composer. He is one of the most influential composers
of the late 20th century
● Though his early mature music shares much with what is normally
called "minimalist", he has since evolved stylistically .
● He still alive till date.
12. Koyaanisqatsi
● Koyaanisqatsi was one of his most famous film scores
to date
● Some pieces which were not used in the film (such as
Façades) eventually appeared on the album
Glassworks
● He is one of the most influential composers of the
late 20th century.
13. Steve Reich
● One of the earliest pioneers of minimal music
● This is the time where slow harmonic pieces and the use of cannons
came into play in contemporary music
● Reich is still alive till date and is commonly referred to as a composer
who legitimately altered the course of music history.
14. Piano Phase
His early work Piano Phase has two pianos playing the same short phrase,
with one piano very gradually speeding up until eventually it is one note
ahead — the effect is utterly mesmeric.
16. World War II
Stravinsky, who rarely acknowledged outside inspirations for his music,
referred to the composition as his 'war symphony'.
He claimed the symphony as a direct response to events of the Second
World War in both Europe and Asia.
18. Holocaust
Compositions during this time did
indeed break taboos by openly
declaring their faith in the emotive
power of music.
The mass murder of Jews,
'undesirable people', and Gypsies
evoked emotions and feelings never
felt before.
21. Artists
Wassily
Kandinsky
Andy Warhol Sigmar Polke
Jean-Michel Basquiat Roy Lichtenstein
22. Andy Warhol
● Was born on August 6, 1928 and died on February 22, 1987
● Was not a composer during the time, but a famous pop artist
● His works explore the relationship between artistic expression,
celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s
● After a experiencing a great time as a commercial illustrator, he
became renowned and at times a controversial artist.
● He painted many pieces that people still critique today and he was one
of the earliest pioneers in computer generated art using amiga
computers which were introduced two years before he died.
23. Wassily Kandinsky
● Wassily was born on December 6, 1866 in Moscow, Russia. He spent his
childhood in Odessa.
● He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics.
He was offered a professorship at the University of Dorpat
● He began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the
age of 30.
● He was best known for being an influential russian painter and an art
theorist.
● But most artist and modern day historians remember him as painting
the first purely abstract painting. He used the term "inner necessity
to describe his art. Which is what it really was.
● Wassily died on December 13, 1944.
24. Jean-Michel Basquiat
Was born on December 22, 1960 and died August
12, 1988 was an American artist.
He began as an obscure graffiti artist in New York
City in the late 1970s
But he evolved into an acclaimed Neo-expressionist
and Primitivist painter by the 1980s.
25. Sigmar Polke
He was born on February 13, 1941
He mostly known as a German painter and
photographer.
Polke experimented with a wide range of styles,
subject matters and materials
In the 1970s, he concentrated on photography,
returning to paint in the 1980s when he produced
abstract works created by chance through chemical
reactions between paint and other products.
In the last 20 years of his life, he produced
paintings focused on historical events and
perceptions of them.
He died on June 10, 2010.
26. Roy Lichtenstein
He died on September 29, 1997
Was born on October 27, 1923
Was most widely known as an american pop artist.
He became a leading figure in the new art movement.
His work defined the basic premise of pop art better than
any other imitation.
His work was heavily influenced by both popular advertising
and the comic book style.
