Charles Wuorinen (born June 9, 1938 in New York City) is an American composer. Co-founder of the Group for Contemporary Music, Wuorinen writes serial instrumental music. Some of his pieces are influenced by fractal geometry and Benoit Mandelbrot, while his later works feature some tonal relationships. In 1970, Wuorinen was the youngest composer ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music for Time's Encomium. He is also the author of Simple Composition, ISBN 0938856065, which he says is, "written by a composer and is ...

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Aaron Jay Kernis, born January 15, 1960 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is one of the most highly-honored contemporary composers. He studied at the Manhattan School of Music, the San Francisco Conservatory, and Yale University, under John Adams, Jacob Druckman, Morton Subotnick and Charles Wuorinen. Notable works include the New Era Dance, his second string quartet musica instrumentalis (which won the 1998 Pulitzer prize), Colored Field for En ...

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Twelve-tone technique (also dodecaphony) is a method of musical composition devised by Arnold Schoenberg. Music using the technique is called twelve-tone music. Josef Matthias Hauer also developed a similar system using unordered hexachords, or tropes, at the exact same time and country but with no connection to Schoenberg. Other composers have created systematic use of the chromatic scale, but it is Schoenberg's method which is historically ...

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String quartet - Born before 1800. Giovanni Battista Sammartini (ca. 1700–1775): wrote several quartets though as with many early works for the medium some of these could be played equally by a small string orchestra. Christian Cannabich (1731–1798): six string quartets opus 5 (about 1780). Joseph Haydn (1732–1809): wrote sixty-eight string quartets (some of which he called Divertimenti), the last incomplete, plus Die Sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze (See also:

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The word "minimalism" was first used in relation to music in 1968 by Michael Nyman in a review of Cornelius Cardew's piece The Great Digest. Nyman later expanded his definition of minimalism in music in his 1974 book Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond. Tom Johnson, one of the few composers to self-identify as minimalist, also claims to have been first to use the word as new music critic for the Village Voice. He describes "minimalism" (1989, p. 5): "The idea of minimalism is much larger than most people realize. I ...

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The basis of twelve-tone technique is the tone row or set, an ordered arrangement of the twelve notes of the chromatic scale (the twelve equal tempered pitch classes), or, rather, an ordered arrangement of intervals which produce those notes. When the technique is strictly applied, an entire piece must be built up from statements of any transposition of this tone row in strict order or transformations of this row. Both melody and harmony may be created in this way. The set may be used in succession or simultaneously, the latter of which may ...

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The serialization of rhythm, dynamics etc developed after the Second World War by arguing that the twelve-tone music of Arnold Schoenberg and his followers of the Second Viennese School had serialized pitch, and was partly fostered by the work of Olivier Messiaen and his analysis students, including Karel Goeyvaerts and Boulez, in post-war Paris. Twelve-tone music is regarded by some as a sub-category of serialism, and by others serialism is seen as an outgrowth of twelve-tone music.

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William T. Kirby, a founding member of the board of directors and Chairman of the Board until his death, suggested that the MacArthur Foundation create the Fellows Program. It was his doctor, Dr. George Burch of Tulane University, who first brought this idea to Mr. Kirby's attention. The complete story of how this program began can be found at http://macarthur-foundation.blogspot.com/ The MacArthur Fellowship (sometimes nicknamed the "genius grant") is an award issued by the MacArthur Foundation each year, to typically 20 to 40 citize ...

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The form first came to be used after the middle of the 18th century. Joseph Haydn's first works for string quartet have five movements and resemble the divertimento (a title which they carried in some editions) or serenade, but the opus 9 quartets of 1769–70 are in the form which was to become standard both for Haydn and for other composers: four movements, a fast movement, a slow movement, a minuet and trio and a fast finale. Because his example helped codify a form that originated in the Baroque suite, Haydn is often referred to as "the ...

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The vocabulary of serialism is rooted in set theory, and uses a quasi-mathematical language to describe how the basic sets are manipulated to produce the final result. Musical set theory is often used to analyze and compose serial music, but may also be used to study tonal music. According to Boulez, "Classical tonal thought is based on a world defined by gravitation and attraction, serial thought on a world which is perpetually expanding." The latter types of metaphors-- which seek to closely associate contemporary art with contemporary science-- ar ...

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Serialism is most specifically defined as the structural principle according to which a recurring series of ordered elements (normally a set - or 'row' - of pitches or 'pitch classes') which are used in order, or manipulated in particular ways, to give a piece unity. Serialism is often broadly applied to all music written in the what Arnold Schoenberg called "The Method of Composing with Twelve Tones related only to one another", or dodecaphony, and methods which evolved from his methods. It is sometimes used more specifically to apply only ...

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Although any combination of four string instruments can literally be called a "string quartet", in practice the term refers to a group consisting of two violins (the "first" and "second" violin), one viola and one cello. Should a composer create music for four other string instruments — for instance, three violins and bass, or violin, viola, cello and guitar — the instrumentation is indicated specifically. The standard string quartet is widely seen as one of the most important forms in chamber music, with most major composers, from the late 1 ...

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Early minimalists include: David Behrman Gavin Bryars Cornelius Cardew Tony Conrad Jon Gibson Philip Glass Terry Jennings Petr Kotik (born in Czechoslovakia) Douglas Leedy Richard Maxfield Robert Moran Phill Niblock Pauline Oliveros Charlemagne Palestine Steve Reich Terry Riley Howard Skempton ...

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It was William T. Kirby, John MacArthur's attorney, along with Paul Doolen, Mr. MacArthur's CFO, who suggested that the MacArthurs create a foundation which was endowed by their vast fortune. The legal document, written by William T. Kirby, that created the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation was two pages long. It was written in understandable English. The first president of the foundation was Paul Doolen, who served from 1978 to 1980. Dr. John Corbally was the second president of ...

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