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Tonal music |
Establishes a harmonic center of gravity, a central note (the tonic) |
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Atonal Music |
Has no harmonic center of gravity. All noes are of equal weight. |
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The Unanswered Question |
Charles Ives |
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Career path went against the grain |
Charles Ives |
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Expressionism |
Truth over beauty, raw human emotions, grotesque and surreal. Distorted, dark, dissonant |
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Columbine |
Arnold Schoenberg |
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Sprechstimme |
Hit - but not sustain - precise pitches |
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Austrian who developed Twelve-tone composition |
Arnold Schoenberg |
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The Rite of Spring |
Igor Stravinsky |
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Modernism |
Unconventional harmonies, angular rhythms, novel ideas |
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Folk-like sound can be attained by.... |
The use of pentatonic melodies |
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Ostinato |
A rhythmic gesture is repeated over and over again, many times |
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Sergei Diaghilev |
Ballet choreographer |
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Igor Stravinksy |
Many of his works reflect his Russian ancestry. He was constantly reinventing himself |
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Piano Study in Mixed Accents |
Ruth Crawford |
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Violes |
Impressionism |
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The Unanswered Question |
Modernism |
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Columbine |
Expressionism |
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The Rite of Spring |
Modernism, Primitivism |
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Piano Study in Mixed Accents |
Serialism |
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Concertino for Harp and Orchestra |
Neoclassicism |
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Hoe-Down |
Nationalism |
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Concerto for Orchestra II (Game of Pairs) |
Modernism, nationalism |
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Sonata II from Sonatas and Interludes |
Modernism |
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Einstein on the Beach |
Minimalism |
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"Mixed Accents" |
Irregular groupings, with the first note in each unit accented |
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Concertino for Harp and Orchestra |
Germaine Tailleferre |
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Neoclassicism |
Incorporate past styles into a contemporary idiom |
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Begins with fast harp |
Concertino for Harp and Orchestra |
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Includes periodic phase structure, tonal harmony, and a fugue |
Concertino for Harp and Orchestra |
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Part of "les six" |
Germaine Tailleferre |
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Hoe-Down |
Aaron Copland |
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Begins with fan-fare and an orchestra tuning |
Hoe-Down |
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Composer who never lost touch with his American roots and wrote music for a number of Hollywood films |
Aaron Copland |
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Concerto for Orchestra II (Game of Pairs) |
Béla Bartók |
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Scholar, composer, preformer |
Béla Bartók |
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Sonata II from Sonatas and Interludes |
John Cage |
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Prepared piano |
Strings in the piano have been "prepared" through insertion of various pieces of hardware |
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His purpose was to eliminate purpose. Most of his works polarized the listeners |
John Cage |
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Minimalism |
A brief musical idea is repeated and varied with a relatively slow rate of change |
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Begins with side drum, then quiet bassoons and plucked strings |
Concerto for Orchestra, "Game of Pairs" |
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Begins with prepared piano |
Sonata II |
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A composer mention no less than 3 times in The Simpson's, and satirized in an episode of South Park |
Philip Glass |
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Wrote 10 opera's, large quantities of vocal & instrumental music, and soundtracks for films |
Philip Glass |
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The counting song |
Einstein on the Beach |
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A Black Pierrot |
William Grant Still |
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T/F Through-composed form was new in the twentieth century |
False |
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The first Af. Am. composer to have a symphony performed by a major orchestra |
William Grant Still |