Goals for Review

to distinguish the second phase of avant-garde modernism, after World War II, from the first

to understand late modernists’ radical experimentation with time, chance music, and new electronic media

to sample modernist styles in the 1950s and 1960s: Edgard Varèse, György Ligeti, and John Cage

to listen carefully to a minimalist classic by Steve Reich

to explore varieties of late modernism and postmodernism c. 2000: George Crumb, Tania León, and John Adams