If 20th century music history is a chocolate cream pie, all we did in class was smell the aroma - we didn't even touch the thing! But since we'd all like to go home at semester's end, we have to move on to America's Classical Music on Wednesday.
Before we do, though, I want to play the piece below for you. It ties together several of the 20th C characteristics we've seen:
- it uses noise as a sound source,
- uses rhythmic speech as a melody,
- sometimes has a melody & sometimes doesn't,
- and requires a lot of technology.
In particular you'll hear some bongo/conga type sounds that are synced up with spoken syllables - that was done with sampling (as far as I can tell).
Take a listen and see if you can connect what you are hearing with the concepts we discussed in class.
