Transcript Western Classical 2 Music Spider Charts Interlocking Melodies or rhythms Augmentation (adding notes) gradually Change the rhythm gradually Diminution (taking away notes) gradually Techniques Change the pitch gradually Minimalism Imitation / Canon Looping Add or take away instruments Ostinato (repeating pattern) Discovered 1950s tape splicing.

Western Classical 2 Music
Spider Charts
Interlocking
Melodies or
rhythms
Augmentation
(adding notes)
gradually
Change the rhythm
gradually
Diminution
(taking away
notes)
gradually
Techniques
Change the
pitch gradually
Minimalism
Imitation /
Canon
Looping
Add or take
away
instruments
Ostinato (repeating
pattern)
Discovered 1950s tape splicing and
playing two tapes at
the same time one at a
slightly slower speed
Phase Shifting
Short
Phrases
Composers
Structure
American
Steve Reich
Terry Riley
Layering
Philip Glass
Can be Aleotoric
(music of Chance)
Gradual
Changes in
texture
Heterophonic
Discords
Very Large
orchestra but can be
used very thinly
Dissonant
(clashing notes)
Can be Chromatic
based
No clear sense of Metre (changing time
signatures throughout music
No notes may be
repeated in the first
“tune”
The first row is
called the Prime
Order
Atonal
Retrograde
(write note row
backwards)
Berg
12 tone
note row
Schoenberg
Disjunct melodies
(lots of big jumps)
Serialism
Structure
Composers
No lyrical (singable
tunes) melodies
Berio
Verticalised (some
pitches of note row
used as chords
Transpose (raise
note row up or
down 1 or more
pitches
Inversion
(write note
row upside
down
Retrograde
Inversion
(upside
down and
backwards)
Whistling
Portamento (pitch sliding)
Humming
Melismatic
Vocal
techniques
Consonant
sounds
Syllabic
Vowel sounds
Music notated on a
Graphic Score
See Club Dance Remix
all words apply
Multitracking
Uses everyday resources - musical and
non-musical to create unique sound worlds
Play
instruments in
strange ways
Techniques
Electronic
Collage
Experimental
John Cage
Composers
Composers
Meridith Monk
Stockhausen
David
Bedford
Trevor
Wishart
Bowing
Scraping
Plucking
Metallic
Percussive
Over
blowing