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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, November 9, 1967
Dissonance: mark of modern music
By Sharon Woodson Kansan Staff Reporter
Contemporary music "is a particular sound that began with a negative definition."
This statement was made by Austin Ledwith, associate professor of music, who spoke at a music forum Wednesday afternoon in the Kansas Union.
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Leedwith said the sound of contemporary music is unpleasant for some listeners because the method of creating contemporary music is opposite to the customary approach. Traditional music, he said, moves from dissonance to consonance. But contemporary works take the opposite approach and do not center around a melody or single tone reference.
Contemporary music was written as early as 60 years ago and has continued to develop since then.
"Contemporary composers in the early 1900's wanted to produce sounds different from the traditional music of Each or Beethoven," Ledwith said.
One of the basic differences between contemporary music and the traditional pieces is brevity, he said.
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"The romantic composer was like a dog and his bone. He eats all the meat off, and still keeps on chewing," Ledwith explained.
"These composers would develop their theme, repeat it and continue the idea. But contemporary pieces portray their expression and end."
The new music is a complete turn-about from the 19th century, Ledwith said. A new system was devised using 12 tones and repeating no one tone until the other 11 were heard. This antitonality was a negative approach to the tone system of traditional sound.
New system devised
"Through the years contemporary music has become assimulated from the best of both new and old styles," Ledwith said.
Cites electronic music
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"Regardless how strange it may sound or how revolted the listener may be at first, he must not reject contemporary music immediately. He must listen more than once," Ledwith said.
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separate tapes and then running them together to create a prolonged effect similar to the "Twilight Zone" television show theme.
versal definition of music is organized sound. Ledwith said.
All of these contemporary methods are considered musical compositions because the uni-
of music, made with computers, can be heard on some of this season's television shows, including the CBS production, "The Twenty-first Century."
Another contemporary method of composing, he said, is the recording of natural sounds on
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