Chapter 21: Beyond Tonality Flashcards
What does atonality mean?
The absence of a tonal center.
What is pantonal?
What Schoenberg wanted to call atonal music.
What is expressionism?
a broad artistic movement of the time that sought to give voice (expression) to the unconscious, to make manifest to humanity’s deepest and to strip away the veneer of so called civilized behavior and reveal the darkest recesses of human emotion.
How is expressionism related to primitivism?
Both attempt to strip away the civilized behavior and reveal the darkest recesses of human emotion.
What is the quintessential act of expressionism?
The scream. (an utterance that is not a word, a product of civilization, but rather an intense, spontaneous reaction to something that has caused pain or fear.
What are 3 principle functions of 12 tone row?
- Avoid creating impression of a principle note
- to unify the composition motivically
- Emancipate the dissonance (eradicate any distinction between consonance and dissonance)
What is a matrix?
Shows at a glance all the possibilites of row
What is pitch class?
Designates any set of notes regardless of register.
What is pitch class designated by?
Number
Musical Prose
style of writing in which musical ideas proceed in a style analogous to prose as opposed to rhymed, metered poetry.
