Y2Konvocation Series

Wednesday 27 October 1999

Decade 7 (1960-1969)

Notes by Daniel Jacobson
Timeline content by Daniel Jacobson, Curtis Curtis-Smith and Richard Adams

The seventh decade of the 20th century saw modern music delve further into the avant garde, with the sound-mass experiments of Penderecki, Ligeti, Berio and Oliveros; early minimalism by Riley; creative uses of computer-generated sounds by Davidosky, Stockhausen, Babbitt and Xenakis; multi-serial approaches by Boulez and Lutoslawski; and the start of "post-modernist" quotation music by Rochberg and Foss.

 

Year

Born

Died

Representative Works

1960

Penderecki: Threnody to Victims of Hiroshima
Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Oliveros: Sound Patterns
Foss: Time Cycle

 

1961

Grainger

Britten: War Requiem
Lutoslawski: Venetian Games
Boulez: Structures II
Ligeti: Atmospheres

 

1962

Stravinsky: Abraham and Isaac
Davidosky: Synchronisms No. 1

 

1963

R. Adams

Hindemith
Poulenc

Ginastera: Violin Concerto
Bolcom: Dynamite Tonite

 

1964


Stravinsky: Elegy for J.F.K.
Rochberg: Nach Bach
Babbitt: Philomel
Riley: In C

 

1965

Varese
Cowell

Berio: Sequenza III

 

1966

Ligeti: Lux Aeterna
Stockhausen: Telemusik
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 11
Colgrass: As Quiet As

 

1967

Kodály

Reich: Violin Phase (publ. 1979)
Ligeti: Lontano
Foss: Baroque Variations

 

1968


Berio: Sinfonia
Xenakis: Nomos gamma

 

1969

Druckman: Animus III
Davies: 8 Songs for a Mad King
Partch: The Delusion of the Fury