Williamsburg Regional Library

Great Music of the 20th Century, Episode 15

Label
Great Music of the 20th Century, Episode 15
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
Great Music of the 20th Century
Medium
electronic resource
resource.otherEventInformation
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2018
Runtime
46
Summary
Learn how the advent of musical synthesizers and the tape recorder gave rise to both electronic music (using sounds created electronically) and musique concrète (manipulating real sounds with a tape recorder). Witness how Ultraserialism developed within Europe, leading paradoxically to hyper-complex music which in performance sounded random - a fatal problem for listener comprehension
Technique
live action
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