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Section 7.4

Answer 1

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1. (C) Music of changes

Edgard was a French-born composer who contributed the greater part of his career in the United States. Varèse's music highlights timbre and rhythm. He invented the term "organized sound" in reference to his own musical aesthetic. Varèse's idea of music followed his vision of "sound as living matter" and of "musical space as open rather than bounded". He thought the components of his music in terms of "sound-masses", likening their organization to the natural phenomenon of crystallization.

2. (C) Brussels World's Fair

Poème électronique is an 8-minute composition of electronic music by composer Edgard Varèse, written for the Philips Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair. The Philips corporation commissioned Le Corbusier to design the pavilion, which was intended as a showcase of their engineering progress. Le Corbusier came up with the title Poème électronique, saying he desired to produce a "poem in a bottle". Varèse composed the piece with the purpose of creating a liberation between sounds and as a result, uses noises not normally considered "musical" throughout the piece.

3. (C) independent and contrasting

Polyrhythm is the simultaneous use of two or more conflicting rhythms, that are not immediately regarded as originating from one another, or as simple indications of the same meter. The rhythmic conflict may be the foundation of an entire piece of music (cross-rhythm) or a momentary disruption.

4. (B) Sirens

This was one of his only completely electronic pieces and it represents what he had been striving towards for years- he had been imagining a composition that was made by unconventional means.   In a way, it was the conclusion of years of work in his effort to capture sounds and ideas that couldn't be achieved with conventional instruments.

5. (C) Emo

Emo is a rock music genre distinguished by an stress on emotional expression, sometimes through confessional lyrics. It appeared as a form of post-hardcore from the mid-1980s hardcore punk movement in Washington, D.C., where it was identified as emotional hardcore or emocore and pioneered by bands such as Rites of Spring and Embrace.

Answer 2

1) All the listed compositions are be Edgard Varese except C) Music of Changes. Music of Changes is actually a is a piece for solo piano that was composed by John Cage 1951. It was devoted to a friend of the author, soon after its release it was considered to be a nice example of indeterminate music.

2)  Varese's Poeme electronique had its premiere in C) Brussels World's Fair. It was a huge project for those who are into art and technology. This composition is an 8-minute piece of electronic music that was written for the Philips Pavilion designed by Le Corbusier  at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair. His idea for to show people a "poem in a bottle", and the pavilion's shape looked like a stomach.

3) The individual rhythms of polyrhythmic music are C) independent and contrasting. The concept of polyrhythm defines the term of polyrhythmic music as the simultaneous use of two or more conflicting rhythms, that are not readily perceived as deriving from one another, which means that they all are different and, for the first sight, non-combinative. But eventually they form a whole composition.

4) One of the more unusual sounds in Varese's Poeme electronique is the sound of B) sirens. Throughout the whole composition there is a lot of sirens used. They usually appear after intro tones. This is one of the main parts of his spatialization scheme.

5)In the early twenty-first century, bands such as Fall Out Boy developed a musical style called C) emo, characterized by sentimental lyrics. Even though they were commonly considered to be a pop punk band, Fall Out Boy are still can be described as emo band pop, due to the emotional line of their texts and different sound that sort of reminded of The Get Up Kids, mostly because FOB found them inspiring.