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Tonal music

Establishes a harmonic center of gravity, a central note (the tonic)

Atonal Music

Has no harmonic center of gravity. All noes are of equal weight.

The Unanswered Question

Charles Ives

Career path went against the grain

Charles Ives

Expressionism

Truth over beauty, raw human emotions, grotesque and surreal. Distorted, dark, dissonant

Columbine

Arnold Schoenberg

Sprechstimme

Hit - but not sustain - precise pitches

Austrian who developed Twelve-tone composition

Arnold Schoenberg

The Rite of Spring

Igor Stravinsky

Modernism

Unconventional harmonies, angular rhythms, novel ideas

Folk-like sound can be attained by....

The use of pentatonic melodies

Ostinato

A rhythmic gesture is repeated over and over again, many times

Sergei Diaghilev

Ballet choreographer

Igor Stravinksy

Many of his works reflect his Russian ancestry. He was constantly reinventing himself

Piano Study in Mixed Accents

Ruth Crawford

Violes

Impressionism

The Unanswered Question

Modernism

Columbine

Expressionism

The Rite of Spring

Modernism, Primitivism

Piano Study in Mixed Accents

Serialism

Concertino for Harp and Orchestra

Neoclassicism

Hoe-Down

Nationalism

Concerto for Orchestra II (Game of Pairs)

Modernism, nationalism

Sonata II from Sonatas and Interludes

Modernism

Einstein on the Beach

Minimalism

"Mixed Accents"

Irregular groupings, with the first note in each unit accented

Concertino for Harp and Orchestra

Germaine Tailleferre

Neoclassicism

Incorporate past styles into a contemporary idiom

Begins with fast harp

Concertino for Harp and Orchestra

Includes periodic phase structure, tonal harmony, and a fugue

Concertino for Harp and Orchestra

Part of "les six"

Germaine Tailleferre

Hoe-Down

Aaron Copland

Begins with fan-fare and an orchestra tuning

Hoe-Down

Composer who never lost touch with his American roots and wrote music for a number of Hollywood films

Aaron Copland

Concerto for Orchestra II (Game of Pairs)

Béla Bartók

Scholar, composer, preformer

Béla Bartók

Sonata II from Sonatas and Interludes

John Cage

Prepared piano

Strings in the piano have been "prepared" through insertion of various pieces of hardware

His purpose was to eliminate purpose. Most of his works polarized the listeners

John Cage

Minimalism

A brief musical idea is repeated and varied with a relatively slow rate of change

Begins with side drum, then quiet bassoons and plucked strings

Concerto for Orchestra, "Game of Pairs"

Begins with prepared piano

Sonata II

A composer mention no less than 3 times in The Simpson's, and satirized in an episode of South Park

Philip Glass

Wrote 10 opera's, large quantities of vocal & instrumental music, and soundtracks for films

Philip Glass

The counting song

Einstein on the Beach

A Black Pierrot

William Grant Still

T/F Through-composed form was new in the twentieth century

False

The first Af. Am. composer to have a symphony performed by a major orchestra

William Grant Still