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30 Cards in this Set
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a rapid slide up and down a scale |
glissando |
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combination of two chords heard at the same time
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polychord |
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the ones are the fourth apart instead of third
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fourth chord |
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a chord made up of tones only a half step or whole step apart
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Tone cluster |
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built on the fifth tone (sol) of the tonic scale
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dominant chord |
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the use of two or more keys at one time
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polytonality |
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when only two different keys are used at once
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bitonality |
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the absence of tonality or key
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Atonality |
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two or more contrasting, independent rhythms at the same time
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polyrhythm |
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a motiv or phrase that is repeated persistently at the same pitch throughout a section |
Ostinato |
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emphasis on tone color, atmosphere, fluidity |
impressionism |
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five-tone, scleas heard in japanese music (five successive black keys of the piano: F G A C D) |
Pentatonic |
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six different notes each a whole step away from the next (C D E F G A C) tones are all the same distant apart |
Whole tone scale |
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emotional restraint, balance, and clarity, revival of old forms+20C harmoniest rhythms |
neoclassicism |
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the deliberate evocation of primitive power through insistent rhythms and percussive sounds [style] |
primitism |
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intense, subjective emotion [style] |
expressionism |
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a succession of varying tone colors used as a musical idea |
tone-color melody |
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speech-voice: the vocal part is written in music notation (x) but only the approximate |
sperech stimme |
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equal importance to each of the 12 chromatic tones. systemized form of atonality |
the twelve tone system |
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ordering, unifying idea |
tone row, set, series |
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4 kinds of twelve tone system |
original, retrogade, inversion, retrograde inversion |
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the use of seires or ordered group of musical elements to organize several dimensions of a composition |
serialism |
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completely out of order, random music |
chance music |
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steady pulse, clear tonality, insistent repetition of short melodic patterns |
minimalist music |
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the quoted material usually conveys a symbolic meaning and transformed to other music |
quotation music |
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intervals smaller than the half step |
microtones |
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electronic music is often presented together with visual counter parts such as slide projections, films, light shows... |
mixed media |
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grand piano whole sound is altered by objects such as bolts |
prepared piano |
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percussion instrument with tuned metal bars, tubular metal resonators that produce a vibrato by means of motor-driven revolving metal vines |
vibraphone |
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xylophone with resonators |
marimba |
