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35 Cards in this Set
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Avant-garde
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The most advanced musical style. At the front of new styles.
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New Music
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Music of the Modern Era
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Pentatonic Scale
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A specifically structured five note scale.
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Whole-tone Scale
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A scale, used sometimes by Debussy, comprisong only six notes to the octave, each a whole tone apart
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Octatonic Scale
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An eight note scale consisting of half and whole steps in alteration
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Atonality
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The absence of any feeling of tonality
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Impressionism
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A French artistic movement of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Influenced music with composers like Debussey (though he did not like the label).
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Expressionism
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An early 20th Century movement in art, music and literature in Germany and Austria. Expressionist artists sought to express the meaning of "being alive" and emotional experience rather than physical reality.
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Sprechstimme
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A vocal style developed by Schoenberg, in between singing and speaking
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Serialism
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The technique of composing with a series, generally a twelve-note series
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Twelve-tone System
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Method of composition devised by Arnold Schoenberg in which the twelve pitches of the octave are ordered and strictly manipulated
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Twelve-tone Row
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An ordering of all twelve notes of the chromatic scale, used in composing serial music
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Retrograde
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Reading or playing a melody or twelve note series backwards
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Inversion
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Reading or playing a twelve-note series upside down, playing upwards intervals downwards and vice versa
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Retrograde Inversion
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Combination of Retrograde and Inversion
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Nationalism
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Music associated with national subjects
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Multiphonics
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A technique where you create multiple pitches out of an instrument that is only supposed to play one note at a time
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Musique Concrete
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Music composed with natural sounds recorded electronically
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Synthesizers
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An electronic apparatus that generates sounds for electronic music
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Computer Music
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Music that is electronically generated from a computer
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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 up to chance
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Minimalism
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A late 20th Century style involving many repetitions of simple musical fragments
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Call and Response
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In African and early African American music, a style in which a phrase by a leading singer or soloist is answered by a larger group or chorus
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Spiritual
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A type of African music focused on the afterlife and how it would be better than the present life
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Blues
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A type of African American vernacular music, used in jazz, R&B, 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 that led to Jazz
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New Orleans Jazz
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Clarinet, trumpet, trombone, and rhythm section, had a distinct sound
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Swing
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A type of big-band jazz of the late 1930s and 1940s
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Bebop
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Charlie Parker Jazz
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Fusion
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Highly influenced by Rock’n Roll, electronic instruments used
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Rock and Roll
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Dominant popular style music in the late 20th century
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Film Music
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Music written to accompany films/movies
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Underscoring
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Characters do not hear it, but audience does (ex. horror movies)
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Source Music
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Comes from a source within the film, characters can hear it (ex. radio)
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