Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
21 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Impressionism
|
a movement originating in France in which artists tried to re-create the elusive sensation that an object produced upon the senses in a single, fleeting moment
|
|
|
Symbolistes
|
French poets whose aesthetic aims emphasized the sound of a word rather than its literal meaning
|
|
|
Whole tone scale
|
a six-note scale in which each pitch is a whole tone away from the next
|
|
|
Parallel motion
|
when all of the lines or parts move in the same direction, and at the same intervals, for a period of time; the opposite of counterpoint
|
|
|
Cubism
|
an artistic style which fractures and dislocates formal reality into geometrical blocks and planes
|
|
|
Octave displacement
|
a process used in constructing a melody whereby a simple, nearby interval is made more distant, and the melodic line more disjunct, by placing the next note up of down and octave
|
|
|
7th chord
|
a chord spanning seven letter names and constructed by superimposing three thirds
|
|
|
tone cluster
|
a dissonant sounding of several pitches, each only a half step away from the other, in a densely packed chord
|
|
|
9th chord
|
a chord spanning nine letters of the scale and constructed by superimposing four intervals of a third
|
|
|
11th chord
|
a chord comprised of five intervals of a third and spanning eleven different letter names of pitches
|
|
|
Polymeter
|
two or more meters sounding simultaneously
|
|
|
Polyrhythm
|
two or more rhythms sounding simultaneously
|
|
|
Polychord
|
the stacking of one triad or seventh chord on another so they sound simultaneously
|
|
|
2nd Viennese School
|
three composers - Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern - who decided to take high-art music into a new atonal, and ultimately, serial style
|
|
|
Atonal
|
music without tonality, music without a key center; most often associated with the twentieth-century avant-garde style of Arnold Schoenberg
|
|
|
Sprechstimme
|
(German for "speech-voice") a singer declaims, rather than sings, a text at only approximate pitch levels
|
|
|
Twelve tone composition
|
a method of composing music devised by Arnold Schoenberg that has each of the twelve notes of the chromatic scale sound in a fixed, regularly recurring order
|
|
|
Russian Revolution
|
the overthrow of the Russian tsar in 1917 by the socialist Bolshevik Party; it paved the way for the establishment of a Communist-ruled Soviet Union in 1922
|
|
|
Formalism
|
the Soviet term for modern music that was not immediately understood and enjoyed by the masses
|
|
|
Intermezzo
|
(Italian for "piece") a light musical interlude intended to separate and thus break the mood of two more serious, surrounding movements or operatic acts or scenes
|
|
|
Polytonality
|
the smiultaneous sounding of two keys or tonalities
|
