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Avant-garde
The most advanced musical style. At the front of new styles.
New Music
Music of the Modern Era
Pentatonic Scale
A specifically structured five note scale.
Whole-tone Scale
A scale, used sometimes by Debussy, comprisong only six notes to the octave, each a whole tone apart
Octatonic Scale
An eight note scale consisting of half and whole steps in alteration
Atonality
The absence of any feeling of tonality
Impressionism
A French artistic movement of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Influenced music with composers like Debussey (though he did not like the label).
Expressionism
An early 20th Century movement in art, music and literature in Germany and Austria. Expressionist artists sought to express the meaning of "being alive" and emotional experience rather than physical reality.
Sprechstimme
A vocal style developed by Schoenberg, in between singing and speaking
Serialism
The technique of composing with a series, generally a twelve-note series
Twelve-tone System
Method of composition devised by Arnold Schoenberg in which the twelve pitches of the octave are ordered and strictly manipulated
Twelve-tone Row
An ordering of all twelve notes of the chromatic scale, used in composing serial music
Retrograde
Reading or playing a melody or twelve note series backwards
Inversion
Reading or playing a twelve-note series upside down, playing upwards intervals downwards and vice versa
Retrograde Inversion
Combination of Retrograde and Inversion
Nationalism
Music associated with national subjects
Multiphonics
A technique where you create multiple pitches out of an instrument that is only supposed to play one note at a time
Musique Concrete
Music composed with natural sounds recorded electronically
Synthesizers
An electronic apparatus that generates sounds for electronic music
Computer Music
Music that is electronically generated from a computer
Chance Music
A type of contemporary music in which certain elements, such as the order of the notes or their pitches, are not specified by the composer but are left up to chance
Minimalism
A late 20th Century style involving many repetitions of simple musical fragments
Call and Response
In African and early African American music, a style in which a phrase by a leading singer or soloist is answered by a larger group or chorus
Spiritual
A type of African music focused on the afterlife and how it would be better than the present life
Blues
A type of African American vernacular music, used in jazz, R&B, Rock, and other styles of popular music
Jazz
A major African American performance style that has influenced all 20th Century popular music
Ragtime
A style of American popular music around 1900 that led to Jazz
New Orleans Jazz
Clarinet, trumpet, trombone, and rhythm section, had a distinct sound
Swing
A type of big-band jazz of the late 1930s and 1940s
Bebop
Charlie Parker Jazz
Fusion
Highly influenced by Rock’n Roll, electronic instruments used
Rock and Roll
Dominant popular style music in the late 20th century
Film Music
Music written to accompany films/movies
Underscoring
Characters do not hear it, but audience does (ex. horror movies)
Source Music
Comes from a source within the film, characters can hear it (ex. radio)