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32 Cards in this Set
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atonality
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the absence of key
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Amahl and the Night Visitors
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the first opera written for
television |
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Paul Verlaine
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a symbolist poet
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Debussy
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an impressionist composer
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whole-tone scale
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a series of notes favored by Debussy
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neoclassicism
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a style using Baroque elements
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Rite of Spring
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a ballet by Stravinsky
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Monet
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an impressionist painter
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serialism
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Twelve-tone system
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expressionism
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a style with deliberate distortion
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Sprechstimme
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speech-like singing
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Anton Webern
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A new Viennese composer
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Bela Bartok
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a Hungarian composer
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Charles Ives
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the composer of Putnam’s
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Porgy and Bess
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Gershwin’s opera
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Aaron Copland
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the composer of Appalachian
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aleatoric music
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chance music
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John Cage
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minimalist composer
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microtones
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steps smaller than a half-step
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Scott Joplin
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the “king of ragtime”
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blues
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an early jazz style
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scatting
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jazz singing style with nonsense
syllables |
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Rock Around The Clock
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the first big hit in rock and roll
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idiophones
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self-vibrating percussion
instruments |
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membranophone
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percussion instruments using
stretched skin |
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chordophones
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instruments using stretched strings
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aerophones
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instruments using a column of air
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mbira
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an African thumb piano
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tala
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the rhythmic pattern in Indian
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tabla
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a pair of Indian drums
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raga
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the melodic basis in Indian music
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sitar
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an Indian melodic chordophone
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