Music exam 5
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 cubism | early 20th century artistic style in which the artist fractures and dislocates formal reality into geometrical blocks and planes |
| whole tone scale | a six note scale each pitch of which is a whole tone away from the next Ex: Debussy "voiles from preludes for piano" |
| impressionism in art | first to reject photographic realism in painting, trying to recreate the impression that an object produces upon the senses in a single, fleeting moment |
| impressionism in music | ... |
| pointilism in art | ... |
| pointilism in music | ... |
| symbolist poets | group of poets in the late 19th century Paris whos aesthetic aims were in harmony with those of the Impressionist painters, they worked to create a poetic style in which the literal meaning of the word was less important than its sound and the associations that that sound might produce |
| expressionism | its aim was not to depict objects as they are seen but to express the strong emotion that the object generated in the artist |
| klangfarbenmelodie | tone color melody- distributing melody to many instruments |
| sprechstimme | speak singing |
| serial music | music in which some important component-pitch, dynamics, rhythm- comes in a continually repeating series |
| atonal | music without tonality;music without a key center; most often associated with the twentieth-century avant-garde style of Schoenberg |
| formalism | (atonal, 12 tone) modern music, according to Soviet authorities in the 1920s and 1930s, who branded it as "antidemocratic" |
| absolute music | doesn't tell a story |
| intermezzo | "between piece" a light musical interlude intended to separate and thus break the mood of two more serious, surrounding movements or operatic acts of scenes. |
| ethnomusicology | ethnic melody and harmony- Bela Bartok |
| Renaissance composers | Desprez,Palestrina, Gutenberg, Weelkes |
| Middle Ages Composers | Hildegard, Leonius, perotinus, machaut, Countess of Dia, Dufay |
| Baroque Composers | Monteverdi, Strozzi, Purcell, Lully, Pachabell, Corelli, Vivaldi, Bach, Handel, |
| Classical composers | Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven(bridge) |
| Romantic Composers | Schubert, Shumann, Berloiz, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Liszt, Verdi, Wagner, Puccini, Bizet, Mussorgsky, Dvorak, Mahler, Brahms |
| 20th Century Composers | Debussy, Stravinsky, Shoenberg, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Bartok, Ives, Copland, Zwilich, John Adams, John Cage, |
| Neo-classical | emphasized classical forms and smaller ensembles of the sort that had existed in the Baroque ad Classical periods. |
| minimalism | very small musical unit over and over- focused on what things can become rather than what they are |
| trance music | hypnotic effect- repeating minimal figures using simple, tonal and consonant material incessantly at a steady pulse |
| chance music | flip a coin which decided which pitch/rhythm to use |
| musique concrete | when the composer works, not with sounds written for voice or musical instruments, but with those found naturally in the every day world "Found sound" |
| ionization | removing melody and harmony |
| ameriques | a new world of music sound |
| sampling | the rapper or producer extracts a small portion of prerecorded music and then mechanically repeats it over and over as a musica backdrop |
| tone cluster | simultaneous sounding of a number of pitches only a whole step or a half step apart |
| seventh chord, 9,11 chords | technique for creating new chords- superimposition of more thirds above the consonant triad produces these chords |
| polymeter | multiple meters sounding simultaneously |
| polyrhythm | simultaneous sounding of two or more rhythms |
| polychord | the simultaneous sounding of one triad or seventh chord with another |
| Russian Revolution | the overthrow of the Russian tsar by the sociaist bolshevik party- led to communist ruled Soviet Union |
| quarter tone- | music in which the smallest interval is not the chromatic half step but half of a half step |
| polytonality | simultaneous sounding of 2 or more keys |
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