20TH CENTURY MUSIC Flashcards
Describe the 20th century music
Enormous and diverse.
Personal preferences were respected and tolerated.
The lifestyle depicted the music style.
Numerous composers found many ways to express music.
What did the 20the century composers corporated in their works?
Folk, ethnic, popular culture materials
Who started impressionism
French painter, Claude Monet
Enumerate the elemental forms of impressionism
Static harmony
Emphasis on instrumental timbre that create a shimmering interplay of shimmering colors
lack of guided motion in melodies
Surface ornamentations that distort or substitute melodies
Avoidance of conventional musical form
Describe the rhythm and texture of impressionism music. Give the characteristics
Rhythm: buoyant
texture: homophonic, noticeable chord progressions
Atmospheric, non-emotional, and explored other scales
Where did Expressionism originate?
In Germany, at the beginning of th 20th century
Developed in the first world war
How does expressionism provoke moods or thoughts?
They present the world exclusively from a subjective perspective, dramatically distorting it for emotional effect.
Describe the music of Expressionism
Avante-garde
Extended to a wide range of arts
Tells the story of the composer’s psyche with chaotic and extravagant turbulence.
Enumerate the characteristics of Expressionism music
- High level of dissonance
- Extreme contrast in dynamics
- Constantly changing texture
- Distorted melodies and harmonies
- Angular melodies with high leaps
- Extremes of pitch
- no cadence
How did electronic music start?
During the world war 2 when they were searching for new modes of musical expression, they used technology and electronics to produce sound.
Define electronic music
involves electronic processing of the output. Synthesizers and electronic instruments, as well as tyape recordings and editing and processing are done digitally using computers
How does electronic music differ from chance music?
Electronic music utilizes electronic system to create music like speakers and amplifiers while chance music use the sound of nature.
Whate happened in the Impressionism period
What happened in the Expressionism period?
What happened in the Electronic music era?
