Msc 3044 Quiz 11

Front 1

Rigaudon

Back 1

Lively social dance in 2/4 time

Front 2

Neoclassicism

Back 2

References to earlier music: motoric rhythms, changing meters, cool/detached tone, modern harmony and international tone

Front 3

Chat Noir

Back 3

Venue for cabaret in which Erik Satie worked as a pianist

Front 4

Parade

Back 4

A ballet by Erik Satie comissioned by Sergei Diaghilev. Collaboration with Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso

Front 5

Virgil Thomson

Back 5

American composer and critic who admired Erik Satie

Front 6

cabaret

Back 6

popular entertainment with songs, skits and dancing

Front 7

Serge Koussevitsky

Back 7

Russian conductor, founded orchestra in Paris that performed new works by French and Russian composers

Front 8

Ballet Suédois

Back 8

Modernistic Swedish Ballet, rival ballet company to Le Ballet Russes

Front 9

Ballets Ida Rubenstein

Back 9

Rival ballet company to Le Ballet Russes. First presented Maurice Ravel's ballet Boléro

Front 10

Jazz

Back 10

Dance band / large ensemble with strings, woodwinds, brass, piano, plucked instruments, drums, no improv, syncopation, glissando, used mutes and exaggerated vibrato

Front 11

Drum set

Back 11

collection of percussion instruments in a jazz ensemble played by one person

Front 12

Jean Wiéner

Back 12

Made a concert series in Paris where new experimental pieces were performed side-by-side with jazz music

Front 13

Piet Mondrian

Back 13

Dutch artist who lived in Paris before and after WWI

Front 14

The French Six

Back 14

Native born French composers in the decades after WWI. including Darius Milhaud

Front 15

Jean Cocteau

Back 15

Influential French writer

Front 16

Polytonality

Back 16

Two or more keys in a piece

Front 17

Josef Matthias Hauer

Back 17

Composer in Vienna who composed using the 12 tone law

Front 18

Aggregate

Back 18

One of Hauer's twelve-tone building blocks, using all 12 notes without repeating

Front 19

Hexachord

Back 19

a collection of 6 pitches

Front 20

complementary hexachords

Back 20

2 hexachords that have no common tones form an aggregate

Front 21

twelve-tone method

Back 21

Schoenberg: Using an aggregate and varying melodic phrases

Front 22

Row

Back 22

A phrase of a piece using 12 tone method

Front 23

Retrograde

Back 23

An aggregate in reverse

Front 24

Transpose

Back 24

To move up or down in pitch

Front 25

Inversion

Back 25

Intervals of a row are duplicated in the opposite direction

Front 26

Serialism

Back 26

The order of occurrence of some element of composition is decided by a predetermined plan or arrangement

Front 27

Partitioning

Back 27

Distributing the notes of a row throughout the texture

Front 28

Pointillism

Back 28

Painting technique where dots of pure and contrasting color merge into recognizable images