Chapter 23
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
| Serialism | a method or technique of composition that uses a series of values to manipulate different musical elements. |
| Atonality | describes music that lacks a tonal center, or key |
| Twelve-tone method | a systematic process for producing atonal music and finding a satisfactory way to provide structural coherence in a musical style that had abandoned the traditional means of unifying musical compositions, tonality itself. Schoenberg. |
| Neue Sachlichkeit | literally "new objectivity." |
| Tone Rows | a series of pitch classes, none of which are repeated |
| Matrix | shows the permutations and transpositions of each tone row. |
| Klangfarbenmelodie | literally means tone-color melody. |
| Bauhaus | The architecture of it produced simple, geometrical designs, in which the pure service of function superseded decoration. |
| Neoclassicism | tonal music of the period after WWI; tonal basis, clear textures bc of its aesthetic objectivity. |
| Erik Satie | 1866-1925; composer that employed clear, sparse textures, simple melodic and rhythmic design and a diatonic harmony that suggested 18th century. |
| Les Six | a group of young French composers; Durey, Milhaud, Honegger, Tailleferre, Poulenc, Auric |
| Jean Cocteau | writer and artist that influenced Les Six |
| Hindemith | 1895-1963; composer that liked tonality. Wrote the Craft of my Musical Composition to describe his theory of harmonic and melodic construction. |
| The Craft of my Musical Composition | book written by Hindemith to describe his theory of harmonic and melodic construction based on the harmonic constituents of musical tones. |
| Gebrauchsmusik | literally means use-music; includes all compositions that arise from or are intended for particular, practical situations. |
| Kodaly | pioneer in ethnomusicological research and composer. music is conservative, traditional tonal harmony. |
| Pravda | a newspaper that attacked Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of the District of Mzensk; It was accused of "leftist distortion" and decadent "formalism." He was forced to apologize. |
| Schostakovich | 1906-1975; Covered up the Lady Macbeth controversy with his symphony no. 5. |
| Prokofiev | 1891-1953; composer whos 5th symphony is autobiographical |
| Copland | 1900-1990; Gay Russian Jew composer; began as a neoclassicist but his style became complex by 1930. |
| Nadia Boulanger | One of the most important composition teachers in France; Aaron Copland's student. |
| Howard Hanson | composer of band music. folk-base style, neo-romanticism. |
| William Grant Still | one of the first African American to have his works performed by major musical organizations and the first to conduct a major orchestra. |
| Jazz | evolved out of black American slavery, uniting the powerful syncopated rhythms, improvisational melody of slave calls and black church singing. |
| Dixieland | jazz style from New Orleans. |
| Louis Armstrong | trumpet player and dixieland composer. |
| Count Basie | swing composer and pianist |
| Duke Ellington | most notable swing composer and pianist |
| Millaud | composer of jazz in the neoclassic music |
| George Gershwin | began his career composing popular songs and broadway musicals, combined with elements of jazz. |
| Futurism | a movement in Italy that turned its back on the past |
| Busoni | German-Italian composer who had a written document titled Entwurf einer neuen Asthetik Tonkust (Draft for a new aesthetic of music). |
| Russolo | wrote a manifesto entitled L'arte dei rumori (The art of noises), in which he advocated the use of sounds more akin to everyday noises than to traditional musical tones. |
| Antheil | produced his Ballet mecanique with percusion, eight pianos, a pianola, and an airplane propeller. |
| Varese | 1883-1965; early emigrant to the US and one of the most important avant-garde composers |
| Cowell | 1897-1965; composer that experimented with sounds inside the piano and used tone clusters. |
| Ruth Crawford Seegar | composer that experimented with new compositional options. |
| Harry Partch | composer/hobo that invented new instruments under such curious names as blue rainbow, Castor and Pollux |
| John Cage | composer that got new sounds out of the piano by inserting small objects of various types between the strings |
| Prepared Piano | invented by John Cage and got new sounds out of the piano by inserting small objects of various types between the strings. |
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