1. Western Classical 2 Music Spider Charts

2. Minimalism Augmentation (adding notes) gradually
Diminution (taking away notes) gradually
Interlocking Melodies or rhythms
Ostinato (repeating pattern)
Imitation / Canon
Discovered 1950s - tape splicing and playing two tapes at the same time one at a slightly slower speed
Change the rhythm gradually
Techniques
Looping
Change the pitch gradually
Add or take away instruments
Minimalism
Phase Shifting
Short Phrases
Can be Aleotoric (music of Chance)
Composers
Structure
Gradual Changes in texture
American
Layering
Heterophonic
Steve Reich
Terry Riley
Philip Glass

3. Serialism Discords Very Large orchestra but can be used very thinly
Can be Chromatic based
Dissonant (clashing notes)
No clear sense of Metre (changing time signatures throughout music
No notes may be repeated in the first “tune”
Atonal
No lyrical (singable tunes) melodies
Disjunct melodies (lots of big jumps)
Serialism
The first row is called the Prime Order
Retrograde (write note row backwards)
Structure
Composers
Berg
Inversion (write note row upside down
12 tone note row
Schoenberg
Berio
Retrograde Inversion (upside down and backwards)
Verticalised (some pitches of note row used as chords
Transpose (raise note row up or down 1 or more pitches

4. Electronic Collage Experimental
Whistling
Portamento (pitch sliding)
Humming
Melismatic
Vocal techniques
Consonant sounds
Syllabic
Vowel sounds
Multitracking
Music notated on a Graphic Score
See Club Dance Remix all words apply
Uses everyday resources - musical and non-musical to create unique sound worlds
Play instruments in strange ways
Techniques
Electronic
Collage
Experimental
John Cage
Bowing
Scraping
Composers
Composers
Meridith Monk
Plucking
Metallic
Stockhausen
David Bedford
Trevor Wishart
Over blowing
Percussive