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14 Cards in this Set
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Melody Harmony Tonality |
Intricate, complex, fragmented.
More dissonant and chromatic. More indistinct-atonal. |
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Impressionism
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best-known modernist movement; a French artistic movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries; realists
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Expressionism
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an early 20th century movement in art, music, and literature in Germany and Austria; sought to express the most extreme feelings by divorcing art from everyday literalness
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Twelve-tone
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System: method of composition devised by Schoenberg where the 12 pitches of an octave are ordered and strictly manipulated.
Series: ordering of all 12 notes of chromatic scale, used in serial music |
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Serialism
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technique of composing with a series, generally twelve-tone
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Atonality
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absence of any feeling of tonality
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Sprechstimme
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a vocal style developed by Schoenberg, in between singing and speaking
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Claude Debussy
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refers back to Romanticism, but tone colors avoid sonorities, themes and motives are fragmentary, harmonies are vague, and tonality is clouded. Impressionist
Three Nocturnes |
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Igor Stravinsky
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babaric, abstract, dissonant, irregular rhythms, "new language"
3 Ballets |
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Arnold Schoenberg
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Invented sprechstimme, most significant composer of 20th century.
Expressionist |
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Second Vinnese School
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Schoenber, Anton Webern, Alban Berg
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Charles Ives
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American nationalist composer, 3 independent levels of music, consonant harmony, untraditional polyphony.
Modernist |
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Maurice Ravel
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between impressionism and Neoclassicism, clarity, precision, use of classical forms
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Aaron Copland
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Nationalist, ballets, cowboy songs, jazz, and opera.
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