Music, sound and modernism

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Introduction

Listening:

• Pierre Schaeffer - Etude aux chemins de Fer (1948; 2:50)
• Iannis Xenakis - PH Concrète* (1958; 2:42)
• Charles Dodge - Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental (1979; 7:56)
• Jonathan Harvey - Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco (1979; 9:00)
• Trevor Wishart - Vox, no. 5 (1986; 6:02)
• Mario Davidovsky - Synchronism #9 for violin and tape* (1988; 8:46)
• Heinrich Taube - Gloriette for John Cage* (1994; 4:07)
• Marc Ainger - Shatter* (1998; 8:00)
• Shahrokh Yadegari - The Tear* (2000; 9:51)

Reading:

• Luigi Russolo - The Art of Noises (1913)

* Not in APU Library

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