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Question 1

Post-tonal

Answer 1

Schoenberg-12 tone method/atonality

Question 2

Avant-Garde

Answer 2

explorers of new territory, someone who departs from convention to modernists such as Schoenberg

Question 3

Impressionism

Answer 3

Debussy-closer to symbolism, everyone has a unique experience, individual musical ideas/images carry the meaning behind the work

Question 4

Minimalism

Answer 4

materials are reduced to a minimum and procedures simplified

Question 5

Primitivism

Answer 5

deliberate representation of elemental, crude, uncultured, and cast aside the sophistication and stylishness of modern life and trained artistry

Question 6

Postmodernism

Answer 6

incorporate elements of earlier styles into essentially modern designs, turning away from the belief, crucial to modernist thought, that history progresses irreversibly in one direction.

Question 7

Expressionism

Answer 7

exaggerated gestures, angular melodies, unrelenting dissonance to convey emotions, fluid

Question 8

Neoclassicism

Answer 8

“Le tombeau du Couperin” movement from 1910s-1950s which composers revived, imitated, or evoked the styles, genres and forms of pre-Romantic music, especially classical. Originated in France as rejection of German Romanticism

Question 9

Sprechstimme

Answer 9

“speaking voice” in text, gliding tones while following notated rhythms.

Question 10

Klangfarbenmelodie

Answer 10

Schoenberg concept, tone-color melody, tone color perceived as parallel to changing pitches in a melody

Question 11

12-tone method

Answer 11

Schoenberg method using all 12 tones of scale in random order

Question 12

12-tone method

Answer 12

Schoenberg method using all 12 tones of scale in mathematical order and fashion

Question 13

12-tone method

Answer 13

Schoenberg method using all 12 tones of scale in mathematical order and fashion

Question 14

12-tone method/Tone Row

Answer 14

Schoenberg method using all 12 tones of scale in mathematical order and fashion

Question 15

Gebrauchsmusik

Answer 15

Hindemith-“music for use” music for young or amateur performers that is high quality, modern in style and challenging yet rewarding to perform

Question 16

Atonality

Answer 16

Schoenberg move beyond tonality, avoid tonal center

Question 17

“Emancipation of the Dissonance”

Answer 17

Shoenberg-freeing dissonance from its need to resolve to consonance. Any combination of tones could serve a stable chord.

Question 18

Serialism

Answer 18

Based on 12 tone method or similar approaches that use series of pitches or other elements (Messiaen)

Question 19

Palindrome

Answer 19

Webern Symphony

Question 20

Modernism

Answer 20

new ways of making/seeing/thinking, create new to find a place alongside older classics , for listeners to immediately understand