J. Anthony Allen covers post-WWII Western classical music: minimalism as a reaction against serialism, John Cage's chance music and graphic scores, György Ligeti's influence on film soundtracks, and DJ Spooky as a modern experimentalist continuing these traditions.
So after the wars, after World War II, we get into this era that we talk a lot about as just music. Post 1945, what we saw in a lot of music was in general terms, what we call a return to exploration. Okay, I'm going to start with minimalism, because minimalism is hard to say and is kind of probably one of my favorite movements. I'll get more into that later. But minimalism is the easiest to see as a reaction to serialism, because it's another thing we get around that time. Chance Music. Perhaps you've heard of this piece433 by John Cage. We're going to look at it shortly. And we've already talked a little bit about chance music when we talked about graphic scores. A lot of that has to do with chance music. Century is Ligeti. Ligeti has written a lot of amazing music, and you've probably heard some of Ligeti's music before because a good bit of it has made its way into some film soundtracks. Now, Ligety isn't really well known for chance music. That's not really his main thing. Another I think, important person to take special note of is DJ Spooky. He's been doing a lot of stuff where in. Okay, so while this term can apply to virtually anything written in the last two decades or so I thought in this section of the class we'll just point out some stuff that is kind of exceptionally worth pointing out. So we'll start with this composer, Sa.
