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Music 271: 4/20/07II: American Neo-Classicism concluded: Copland’s Piano Variations and beyond:• Copland, Elliot Carter were all Neo-Classic composers• Rhythmic aspects of early jazz (ragtime) till the 1920s• Tonal, clear textures: these all can be heard in Copland’s Piano Variations• Schönberg is a Neo-classical composers who uses serial harmonyIII: The Experimentalists (Ultra-modernists): Rejection of both post-Romanticism and Neo-Classicism:A: Henry Cowell and The Banshee (1925):• Neo-Classicism “Attempt to reduplicate a bygone style”• Introduced a new agenda: quest for new sonorities and timbres• The strumming of the piano strings become the new timbresB: Edgard Varese and Ionisation (1933):• Neo-Classicism is “Zealously academic”• Percussion is another source of new timbres and sonorities• Began the percussion ensemble tradition: was the first new piece that wasn’t transcribed from another sourceC: John Cage:• Inspired by Varese, composed works for percussion ensemble, solo percussion (brake drums)• “Dis
