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(musTh 212) Assignment – Definitions: Modernism, etc.

April 7, 2008 – 9:47 pm

Due Wednesday, April 9:

Do some brief research on the following terms:

  • Modernism
  • Postmodernism
  • Collage
  • Parody
  • Pastiche

You should have an idea of how these terms apply both specifically to music, and to art in general. You should also know how the terms relate to each other. For example, what is the relationship between Modernism and Postmodernism? For some of the topics you will probably find disagreement over a single meaning.

Be prepared to answer these questions as part of a brief open-note quiz.

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(musTh 212) Lecture Notes: "Import and Allusion"

April 7, 2008 – 9:36 pm

Chapter 9 of the Kostka text covers “external” influences on 20th-century music. He divides external influences into three main sources:

  • The Past (Neoclassicism, Neoromanticism, Quotation)
  • The Present (Folk/Jazz/Pop)
  • The Unfamiliar (Music from other cultures)

Setting aside the idea of “the unfamiliar,” which is fairly loaded from a cultural studies perspective, I would prefer to talk about external influences in two main categories:

  • Stylistic copying
  • Quotation

Quotation makes use of pre-existing musical material, incorporated into a new composition.

Stylistic copying makes use of the recognizable elements of a particular style, without using any actual pre-existing music from that style.

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