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What defines musique concrète?

Musique concrète begins with recorded sounds that are edited, spliced, reversed, filtered, and reorganized as musical material.

What did early Elektronische Musik emphasize?

Elektronische Musik initially emphasized electronically generated tones, especially sine waves and carefully controlled combinations of frequencies.

What is musical indeterminacy?

Indeterminacy leaves some performance decisions open, such as pitches, durations, order, dynamics, or gestures, allowing different performances to differ.

What does Cage’s 4′33″ make musically significant?

In John Cage’s 4′33″, the performer does not intentionally produce the customary instrumental sounds, directing attention to surrounding environmental sounds.

Which techniques characterize musical minimalism?

Minimalism commonly uses repetition, steady pulse, limited harmonic materials, gradual transformation, drones, and phase shifting.

What happens during phase shifting?

In phase shifting, repeating patterns gradually move out of alignment, producing changing rhythmic relationships and displaced accents.

How is postmodernism understood in music?

Postmodernism treats musical history and cultural boundaries pluralistically, combining styles, quotations, popular idioms, and contrasting traditions.

What is a leitmotif?

A leitmotif is a recurring musical idea associated with a character, place, object, or concept.

How does source music differ from nondiegetic music?

Source music appears to come from within the film’s world, such as from a radio or nightclub; nondiegetic music is heard by the audience but not the characters.

What distinguishes modal jazz?

Modal jazz uses scales or modes as extended harmonic fields instead of relying on rapidly changing chord progressions.

What does free jazz loosen or abandon?

Free jazz loosens or abandons conventional chord changes, fixed forms, and regular meter.

How did studio technology change popular music?

A recording can be a constructed musical object shaped by overdubbing, multitrack recording, editing, effects, sampling, and electronically produced sounds.