education

4. ELECTRONIC &
CHANCE
MUSIC
Quarter 1
Lesson 3

5. Technology has produced
electronic music devices
such as cassette tape
recorders, compact
discs and their variants, the
video compact disc (VCD)
and the digital video disc
(DVD), MP3, MP4, ipod,
iphone, karaoke players,

6. ELECTRONIC MUSIC
Music that
employs
electronic
musical
instruments and

7. (NO)
The composer is able
to experiment with
different
sounds that cannot
be produced by

8. Musique Concrete
Music
that uses
the tape

9. (NO)
These sounds are
arranged by the
composer in different
ways like by playing the
tape recorder in its

10. COMPOSERS

11. EDGARD
VICTOR
ACHILLE
CHARLES
VARESE

12. EDGARD VARÈSE
Born on December 22, 1883
and died on November 6,
1965
 “Innovative
French- born
composer”

13. EDGARD VARÈSE
“Father of Electronic
Music”
 His musical
compositions total

14. NOTABLE COMPOSITIONS:
“Bourgogne”
(Burgundy)
– only one of his
early orchestral
works to be
properly performed in

15. “POÈME
ÉLECTRONIQUE”

16. “POÈME
ÉLECTRONIQUE”

17. KARLHEINZ
STOCKHAUSEN

18. KARLHEINZ
STOCKHAUSEN
Born in Cologne, Germany in
1928.
 A central figure in the
realm of electronic music.
He develped his style of
Total

19. KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN
The climax of his
compositional ambition
came in 1977 when he
announced the creation of
Licht
(Light).

20. (NO)
a seven-part opera(one for
each day of the week) for a
gigantic ensemble of solo
voices, solo instruments, solo
dancers, choirs, orchestras,
mimes, and electronics.

21. NOTABLE COMPOSITIONS:
 Gruppen (1957), a
piece for three orchestras
that moved
music through time and
space.
Kontakte
(1960), a work that

22. NOTABLE COMPOSITIONS:
Hymnen (1965),
an ambitious two-
hour work
of 40 juxtaposed
songs and anthems
from around the

23. NOTABLE COMPOSITIONS:
Helicopter String
Quartet, in which a string
quartet
performs whilst airborne in
four different helicopters,
develops his long-standing
fascination with music
which moves in space.

24. “KONTAKTE”

25. “KONTAKTE”

26. CHANCE
MUSIC

27. CHANCE MUSIC
Music created by
chance and its
realization is left to
the performer.
Also known as
ALEATORY MUSIC
or chance-

28. CHANCE MUSIC
It is a style wherein the
piece always sounds
different at every
performance because of
the random techniques of
production.

29. (NO)
including the use of ring
modulators or natural
elements (sounds) that
become a part of the
music.

30. JOHN
CAGE

31. JOHN CAGE
 Born in Los Angeles,
California, USA on
September 5, 1912.
 one of the most
original composers in
the history of western
music.

32. JOHN CAGE
Creator of Chance
music.
He was considered
more of a musical
philosopher than a

33. (NO)
Cage influenced the
development of
modern
music since the 1950s

34. JOHN CAGE
His musical
compositions
total
around 229. Cage
died

35. 4’33’’
a chance musical
work that instructed
the pianist to merely
open the piano
lid and remain silent
for the length of
time indicated by

36. NO
The work was
intended to convey the
impossibility of
achieving total silence,
since surrounding
sounds
can still be heard amidst
the silence of the piano

37. 4’33’’

38. 4’33’’