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Avant-garde
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People or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics.
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Impressionism
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A French movement in music developed by visual artists who preferred vague blurry images intended to capture an "impression" of the subject.
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Expressionism
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The German answer to impressionism during the early 19th century. Inner expression of the soul.
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Absolute music
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Music that has no literal, dramatic, or pictorial program. aka pure music
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Atonality
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Total abandonment of tonality, moving from one level of dissonance to another without areas of relaxation.
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Serialism
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Method of composition in which various musical elements may be ordered in a fixed series.
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Total serialism
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Controlled music in which the twelve-tone principle is extended to music other than pitch.
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12-tone row
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Twelve chromatic tones serving to unify a musical idea in serialism
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Second Viennese school
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Name give to Arnold Schoenberg and his pupils; representing the first efforts in twelve-tone composition.
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Sprechstimme
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Vocal style in which the melody is spoken at approximate pitches rather than sung on exact pitches; developed by Shoenberg.
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Ethnomusicology
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Comparative study of the musics of the world, with a focus on the cultural context of music.
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Ragtime
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Early jazz style, played in ensemble arrangement, characterized by highly syncopated melodies.
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Blues
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Folk music, related to jazz and based on simple, repetitive poetic-musical structure A-A-B
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Improvisation
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Creation of a musical composition while it is being performed.
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Syncopation
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Deliberate upsetting of the meter or pulse through a temporary shifting of the accent to a weak beat or an offbeat.
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Dixieland
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Early 19th century jazz, popularized in New Orleans combining brass band marches, clarinets, and percussion. "When the Saints Go Marching In"
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Scat singing
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A jazz style that sets syllables without meaning to an improvised vocal line.
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Big Band Era (swing)
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1930's - 1940's jazz era
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Bebop
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Complex jazz style of the 1940's
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Spiritual
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Folklike devotional genre of the United States popularized by African Americans
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Fusion
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Style that combines jazz improvisation with amplified instruments of rock.
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Musical Theater
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Musical genre characterized by spoken dialogue, dramatic plot, interspersed with songs, ensemble numbers, and dancing.
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Rhythm and Blues
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Popular musical style 1940s - 60s featuring a solo singer accompanied by a small instrumental ensemble.
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Aleatory music
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Indeterminate music in which certain elements of performance are left to choice or chance.
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Musique concrete
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Music made up of natural sounds and sound effects that are recorded and then manipulated electronically
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Synthesizer
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Electronic instrument that produces a wide variety of sounds by combining sound generators and sound modifiers in one package with a unified control system
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Minimalism
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Contemporary musical style featuring the repetition of short melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic patterns with little variation.
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