Course Information

Course Code:
Course Number:
Code Course Name Language Type
MUZ 443 Contemporary Music History Turkish Elective
Local Credits ECTS Theoretical Tutorial Laboratory
3 4 3 0 0
Course Prerequisites and Class Restriction
Prerequisites None
Class Restriction None
Course Description
European music and developments after World War II. Messiaen and Boulez. Concept of Total Serialism and its influences on young composers. Darmstad School and Total Serialism. Stockhausen and electronic music. Young Italians. Nono, Maderna ve Berio. Young Polish composers. Gorecki, Lutolavski ve Penderecki. Amerikan composers. Cage and Alea theory. Relation between music and maths. Xenakis and Stochastic music. Babbit and Lewin. Micro-tonality. Philip Glass and minimalism. Back to tonality. Wolfgang Rihm , György Ligeti, Krzysztof Penderecki and Neo-Romanticism. Post-modernism. Popular Culture and Mass- Media and Music. Electronic and electroacoustic music.