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nationalism
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romantic era movement promoting music built in national folk songs and dances, or associated with national subjects
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tchaikovsky
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famous russian composer of symphonies, operas, symphonic poems, chamber music, etc
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classicalism
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Brahms rejected many of the innovations of the early Romantics and went back to Classical genres, forms, and to some extent, even classical style.
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Brahms
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when he moved to the city of beethoven and hyden and bach, he moved towards classicalism
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cross-rythms
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When brahms fit 3/8 time into 2/4 time for moments in a piece
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Mahler
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wrote ten lengthy symponies. "a symphony is like the world, it must embrace everything"
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Avant-garde
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in the most advances style
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pentatonic scale
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a 5 note scale playable on the black notes of the keyboard
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Impressionism
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french artistic movement of the late 19th and early 20th century
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Debussy
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Famous 20th century composer
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Whole-tone scale
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used by debussy, comprising only six notes to the octave, each a whole tone apart
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Octatonic scale
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eigth-note scale consisting of half and whole steps in alternation
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Stravinsky
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20th century composer of ballets
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expressionism
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music that was increasingly more emotional and complex
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atonality
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the absence of any feeling of tonality
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Schoenberg
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wrote music for the poet Giraud and he invented sprechstimme
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sprechstimme
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a vocal style that is neither singing nor speaking. It is an inbetween of the two.
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serialism
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systematization of the chromaticism developed by Romantic composers
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twelve-tone system
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method of composing with the twelve tone in relation to one another, not to a central pitch or tonic
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twelve-tone row
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ordering sequence of the twelve pitches in a twelve-tone system
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retrograde inversion
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the intervals between notes turned upside down
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berg
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looked back further then Schoenberg and Webern, he wrote operas
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webern
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wrote a lot of short compositions with a lot of rests(quiet)
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Ives
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early modernism composer; made operas and symphonies
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Copland
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composer who wanted to write music that would speak to his fellow americans(jazz and other stuff)
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Gershwin
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wrote piano preludes and stuff but he incorporated bits of blues and jazz into it
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Musique concrete
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music recorded with natural sounds that are recorded electronically
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synthesizers
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electronic thing used to produce complex sounds
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chance music
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a type of contemporary music in which certain elements, such as the order of the notes or their pitches, are not specified by the composer but are left to chance
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cage
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father of chance music
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minimalism
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many repetitions of simple musical fragments
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reich
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minimalist composer
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spiritual
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religious folk song
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adams
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Modern American composer
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call and response
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in early african american music, a style in which a phrase by a leading singer or soloist is answered by a a larger group or chorus
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blues
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african american vernacular music, used in jazz, rhythm and blues, rock, and other styles of popular music
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jazz
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a major african american performance style that has influenced all 20th century popular music
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ragtime
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a style of american popular music around 1900, usually for piano, helped lead to jazz
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swing
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a type of big band jazz
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big bands
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big jazz bands in the early 1900's
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bebop
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a style of jazz; trumpet and sax with a rhythm section including a piano
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jazz-rock
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blend of rock and jazz
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fusion
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fusing together jazz and rock
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operetta
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popular european genre of light opera in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
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bernstein
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musical theater composer
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