Music Final Flashcards

Front 1

About 20th century music...

Back 1

Age of Diversity, could continue earlier styles, react against earlier styles, adopt other styles, or go back to previous styles.

Front 2

3 qualities of Impressionism

Back 2

gives an impression and not details, informality, associated with the French

Front 3

Where is Expressionism associated with?

Back 3

Vienna

Front 4

Atonal music

Back 4

no key or tone in the music

Front 5

12 tone music

Back 5

using all 12 notes before repearing any, dodecaphonic

Front 6

Serialism

Back 6

apply 12 tone ideas to dynamics and articulation

Front 7

Musique concrete

Back 7

Natural sounds recorded, modified, and organized

Front 8

Aleatory music

Back 8

sounds are the result of chance, Arnold Shoenberg

Front 9

Minimalism

Back 9

type of music when minimal change occurs

Front 10

Claude Debussy

Back 10

Paris, linked Romantic and 20th century music, influenced Javanese and Jazz, composer/critic/pianist

Front 11

Arnold Schoenberg

Back 11

Vienna, 12 note composer, dissonance doesn't resolve, early Romantic and changed keys until it was atonal

Front 12

Igor Stravinsky

Back 12

son of important opera singer, studied law but went to music at age 19, wrote ballets, the rite of spring. nationalism, primitivism, neo-classicism, serialism

Front 13

John Cage

Back 13

let the sounds be themselves, prepared piano which sounds like playing pots and pans.

Front 14

Impressionsts

Back 14

Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Eric Satie

Front 15

Expressionists/12 tone composers

Back 15

Arnold Shoenberg, Bela Bartok, Igor Stravinsky

Front 16

Aleatoric composer

Back 16

Arnold Shoenberg. John Cage?...

Front 17

Minimalist composers

Back 17

Steve Reich, Philip Glass, John Adams

Front 18

important early 20th century composers

Back 18

John Philip Sousa, Charles Ives, Aaron Copland

Front 19

Claire de Lune

Back 19

Claude Debussy, strings, lullaby-like

Front 20

Poem of Electronics

Back 20

Edgar Varese, clicks, computer sounds, electronic

Front 21

Take the A Train

Back 21

Duke Ellington, upbeat like the 50s

Front 22

Porgy and Bess

Back 22

George Gershwin, dark, horn, opera singing women, "the living is easy"

Front 23

Fanfare for the Common Man

Back 23

gong, trumpets, fight songish, fanfare, simple things without words

Front 24

Concerto for Orchestra

Back 24

Bela Bartok, one note at a time, birds on a line, winds, snakecharmer,

Front 25

West Side Story

Back 25

Leonard Bernstein, strings, men then women singing

Front 26

Music

Back 26

organized sound and silence in a time frame

Front 27

Utility music

Back 27

music to acheive a certain purpose

Front 28

absolute music

Back 28

used for its own sake, no other musical association

Front 29

art music

Back 29

for careful attention to quality and expression

Front 30

Musical connotations

Back 30

associations people make wiht music, often personal

Front 31

4 properties of sound

Back 31

pitch, volume, duration, tone color

Front 32

5 elements of music

Back 32

rhythm, pitch, design, expression, timbre

Front 33

Beat

Back 33

the reglar pulse of music, timekeeper

Front 34

Meter

Back 34

organization/grouping of stressed and unstressed sounds

Front 35

Rhythm

Back 35

the flow of music in terms of time

Front 36

Syncopation

Back 36

the displacement of an accent so it goes where its unexpected

Front 37

polyrhythm

Back 37

two or more rhythm patterns occuring simultaneously

Front 38

Staff

Back 38

the bars on which music is composed

Front 39

clef signs

Back 39

dictates which rnace the tones are played in

Front 40

scale

Back 40

a series of pitches moving up or down from a certain point

Front 41

melody

Back 41

consecutive pitches that form a cohesive musical identity

Front 42

harmony

Back 42

simultaneous sounds usually accompanying a melody

Front 43

chord

Back 43

three or more notes played at the same time

Front 44

arpeggio

Back 44

sounding of the individual notes in a chord ini sequence

Front 45

key

Back 45

the tonal center of a piece

Front 46

modulation

Back 46

changing the keys or tonal center as the piece progresses

Front 47

consonance

Back 47

sounds that sound agreeable or restful

Front 48

dissonance

Back 48

sounds that sound disagreeable or restless

Front 49

texture

Back 49

how sound is layered in music

Front 50

monophonic

Back 50

single melodic line without accompanyment

Front 51

homophonic

Back 51

one melody line accompanied by chords

Front 52

polyphonic

Back 52

two or more lines played at the same time

Front 53

dynamics

Back 53

the amount of loudness in music

Front 54

crescendo

Back 54

sound gets louder

Front 55

decrescendo

Back 55

sound gets quieter

Front 56

tempo

Back 56

the speed of beats in the music

Front 57

articulation

Back 57

the way parts are played or enunciated

Front 58

staccato

Back 58

short, quick, accented sounds

Front 59

legato

Back 59

slower enunciated sounds

Front 60

vibrato

Back 60

slight rapid fluctuation of pitch