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30 Cards in this Set
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a rapid slide up or down a scale
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glissando
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two chords heard at the same time
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polychord
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a chord made up of tones only a half step or a whole step apart
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tone cluster
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its an approach to pitch organization is 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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absence of tonality or key
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atonality
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two or more contrasting rhythms at the same time
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polyrhythm
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a motive or a phrase that is repeated persistently at the same pitch
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ostinato
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five tone heard in Javanese music
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pentatonic
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Debussy's most unusual and tonally vague scale is... and made up of 6 different notes each a whole step away from the next
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whole tone scale
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speech voice
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Sprechstimme
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alternative to tonality, a new way to organize pitch in a composition
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twelve tone system
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in a 12 tone system, the ordering or unifying idea is
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tone row
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The use of a series, ordered group of musical elements like the series of twelve tones
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serialism
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composers choose pitches, tone colors, rhythms by random methods such as throwing coins
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chance music
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often represents a conscious break with serialism, an attempt to improve communication between composer and listener
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quotation music
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music varied as nonelectronic music. spectrum includes rock, chance music, and serialism.
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electronic
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intervals smaller than the half step
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microtones
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electronic music presented together with visual countrparts such as slide projections, films, light shows, gestures,a nd theatrical action
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mixed media
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a grand piano whose sound is altered by objects such as bolt, screws, rubber bands, pieces of felt, paper, plastic
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prepared piano
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in jazz, occurs when a voice is answered by an instrument
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call and response
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a blues stanza is set to a harmonic framework that is usually 12 bars in length. has three basic chords: tonic subdominant, and dominant
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12 bar blues
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is the triad based on the fourth note
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subdominant
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the backbone of a jazz ensemble usually made up of piano, plucked double bass, percussion, and a banjo
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rhythm section
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the theme is often a popular song melody made up of 32 measures
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bars
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each statement of the basic harmonic pattern or melody is called a
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chorus
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Dixieland Jazz was played by a small group of 5-8 performers.
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front line
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unaccompained solos
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breaks
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mainly played by big bands. band had 13 14 musicians grouped into 3 sections
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swing band
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main melody was frequently accompanied by saxophones and brasses playing short repeated phrases
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riffs
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